Crazy Man Michael chords by Natalie Merchant

• Difficulty: Beginner

Key: Bm

🎸 Intro:

Bm D A G




🎸 Verse 1:
  Bm   D    A      F#m
Within the fire and out upon the sea
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 Crazy man Michael was walking.
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He met with a raven with eyes black as coal
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And shortly they were talking.

🎸 Verse 2:
   F#m              Bm
"Your  future, your future
I will tell to you.
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Your future you often have asked me.
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Your true love will die by your own right hand
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And crazy man Michael will cursed be.”

Bm D A F#m Bm A Bm  D A F#m Bm A Bm


🎸 Verse 3:
   Bm     D     A     F#m
Well
Michael he ranted and Michael he raved
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And he beat at the four winds with his fists-o.
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Well, he laughed and he cried, he shouted and he swore
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For his mad mind entrapped him with a first-hold.


🎸 Verse 4:
   F#m           Bm
"You speak with an evil, you speak with a hate.
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You speak for the devil that haunts me.
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For is she not the fairest in all the broad land?
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Your sorcerer's words are to taunt me.”


🎸 Interlude:
Bm D A F#m Bm A Bm  D A F#m Bm F#m Bm


🎸 Verse 5:
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Well, he took out his dagger of fine and broad steel
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And he struck down the raven through the heart-o.
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Well, the bird fluttered long, and the sky it did spin
Bm       A       Bm
And this cold earth did wander 'round startled.


🎸 Interlude:
F#m  Bm  F#m  A  Bm F#m Bm F#m Bm F#m Bm


🎸 Verse 6:
  F#m     D     Bm
Oh, where is the raven that I struck down dead
F#m         A
And here did lye on the ground-o?
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I see my true love with a wound so red
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Where her lover's heart  did pound-o.


🎸 Verse 7:
Bm    D      A      F#m
Crazy man Michael, he wanders
I’m told
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And he talks through the night and the day-o
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But his eyes they are sane and his speech is plain
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But he longs to be far away-o.


🎸 Verse 8:
F#m           Bm
Michael he whistles the simplest of tunes
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And he asks of the wild wolves their pardon
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But his true love has flown into every flower grown
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And he must be keeper of the garden.


🎸 Outro:
Bm D A G