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Crazy Man Michael

from Go And 'List For A Sailor by Eddy O'Dwyer

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A cover of Richard Thompson/Dave Swarbrick's classic from the equally classic 'Liege And Lief' Album

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Within the fire and out upon the sea
Crazy man Michael was walking
He's met with a raven with eyes as black as coal
And the pair of them soon were a-talking
'Your future, your future I'll tell to you
Your future you often have asked me;
Your true love will die by your own right hand
And crazy man Michael will cursed be'

Michael he ranted and Michael he raved
And he beat the four winds with his fists-o
He laughed and he cried, he shouted and he swore
For his mad mind had trapped him with a kiss-o
'You speak with an evil, you speak with a hate
You speak for the devil that haunts me
For is she not the fairest in all the broad land?
Your sorcerers words are to taunt me'

He took out his dagger of fire and of steel
And he struck down the raven through the heart-o
The bird fluttered long and the sky it did spin
And the cold earth did wonder and startle
'Oh where is the raven that I struck down dead?
That here should lie on the ground-o
I see but my true love with a wound of deep red
Where her lover's heart it should pound-o'

Crazy man Michael, now he wanders and he calls
And he talks to the night and the day-o
But his eyes they are sane, and his speech it is plain
And he longs for to be far away-o
Michael he whistles the simplest of tunes
And he asks the wild woods for their pardon
For his true love is sewn into every flower grown
And he must be keeper of the garden

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from Go And 'List For A Sailor, released September 22, 2012
Eddy O'Dwyer - Vocals & Guitar
James O'Dwyer - Fiddle

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Eddy O'Dwyer Lincolnshire, UK

Lincoln based singer of traditional songs, strummer (and occasionally fingerpicker) of accoustic guitar, and squeezer of concertina, Eddy O'Dwyer is pleased to present this 'debut' album of (mostly) traditional songs.

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