Lyr Req: Christabel (Robert Earl Keen)

Subject: Christabel by Robert Earl Keen
From:
Date: 15 Feb 97 - 03:01 PM

This is a song by Robert Earl Keen called "Christabel" It is on his "No Kinda Dancer" album. If you know the lyrics, I would appreciate a response. Thanx.

-jt

Subject: RE: Christabel by Robert Earl Keen
From: belter
Date: 17 Feb 97 - 09:56 AM

speaking of Robert Earl Keen, I have had no luck finding his albums in stores. Could somebody tell me how to find them. perhaps some one knows what lable he's on, what section the stores file him in, what name they file him under, or could just tell me if I need to try some kind of specialty store.

Subject: Lyr Add: CHRISTABEL (Robert Earl Keen)
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 11:39 AM

CHRISTABEL

It's been seven long days and seven hard nights
In a sixty-two Chevy with broke taillights
An eastbound man in a westbound lane
A dishwater blonde about sixteen
Was standing on the shoulder with a ribbon in her hair
Her hand on her hip and her thumb in the air
And I pulled off the road and as she grabbed for the door
I knew the wind was cold 'cuz I'd seen it all before
And I was scared

Things ain't never what they seem
When you find yourself livin' in your own dream

Now the moonlight peeked in and out behind the clouds
Now and again on this godless child
And the radio was scramblin', cracklin' in the air
The ribbon she wore looked old in her hair
And I saw the moonlight sliver dead down on her face
I knew it was true she was in the wrong place
In the wrong time, in the wrong tale
I knew when I'd asked her she'd hiss, "Christabel"

Things ain't never what they seem
When you find yourself livin' in your own dream

She was after the man who'd left her alone
With no father beside her and love longtime gone
And the snake deep inside her a hiss in her head
The rest that had been her was dying or dead
And she'd a taste for young women with pearly white skin
She spat on the floor when she spoke of the man who made her like this
Who had written her tale
This medieval maid they call Christabel


Things ain't never what they seem
When you find yourself livin' in your own dream

Then she breathed out the story of her lover to be
A knight'n shining armor on a silvery steed
Who longed to be worthy so he sought the crusade
While she waited, breath bated, in linen brocade
But a pair of black eyes wove 'round her a spell
The snake they call Lydia seduced Christabel
And she cuddled her tender and she poisoned her soul
She stole her young body and made it her own

Things ain't never what they seem
When you find yourself livin' in your own dream

Now the knight would love Lydia in Christabel's arms
And Lydia would have it should he ever return
But Lydia was left with the story undone
No silvery steed no castle no throne
Half woman half serpent entwined in a spell
A barge black and fancy this medieval tale

And she faded at dawn the bird and the beast
Deep in the dreams of those bound for the east
Like me

Things ain't never what they seem
When you find yourself livin' in your own dream

Things ain't never what they seem...


—Robert Earl Keen
from No Kinda Dancer, 1984

Subject: RE: Christabel by Robert Earl Keen
From: SouthernCelt
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 01:57 PM

belter: try doing an internet search for his name and you'll almost certainly find info on his albums and label(s). With that info you can call around locally to see if anyone has any of his stuff, that is, if you don't want to buy off the internet. Most stores with large music departments can get albums that may not otherwise be in demand if you can give them something more than Keen's name to go on. I've not seen any shortage of his stuff in the CD shops here in the South, but shops in other regions may have less demand and don't stock his stuff.
SC

Subject: RE: Christabel by Robert Earl Keen
From: katlaughing
Date: 13 Apr 07 - 04:58 PM

Thanks, GUEST, for posting the lyrics. It's my fav. song on that album.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Christabel (Robert Earl Keen)
From: GUEST,Hananirel
Date: 23 Nov 10 - 08:32 AM

I jst rili lv d sound ov ths song