"Real Country Dark" - Neal Casal - The Sun Rises Here - 1998  
                 Transcribed by Kira-Nerys 

Intro - Am | Am | G | G | Am | Am | G | G | 
        Am | Am | G | G | Am | Am | G | G | 

Am                      G 
  As I started down the street one day 
Am                         G         *            (walkup on 5th string to C) 
  A man came up to me, and he did say 
C                               F 
  You can't spend your time all alone 
C                               G 
  I said, what do you think you know 
Am                    G 
  In the winter on my discontent 
Am                       G           *            (walkup on 5th string to C) 
  Solace came and solace quickly went 
C                      F 
  So I tried to settle down 
C                        G 
  In some long forgotten town 
Am                     G 
  But I just could not escape myself 
Am                             G          *       (walkup on 5th string to C) 
  I probably could have used a little help 

C                F 
 But as usual I refused 
C                             G 
 'Cause help to me always just 
             Am      F          
It felt like abuse 
             Am      G 
It felt like abuse 

Am                   G 
  So I put myself up on a cross 
Am                                 G           *  (walkup on 5th string to C) 
  I made some noise, but could not.. get across 
C                          F 
  No one could hear all my cries 
C                         G 
  So I cut the rope and apologized 
Am                         G 
  For all the damage I had done 
Am                              G         *       (walkup on 5th string to C) 
  'Cause I was just a friend to.. everyone 
C                                  F 
  Who just did not know right from wrong 
C                           G 
  Which makes it easier to.. get along 
Am                           G 
  When your feeling real low down 
Am                        G               *       (walkup on 5th string to C) 
  And kinda tired of just.. hanging around 

C                  F 
  In the town of Caroline 
C                           G 
 I walked up and down those  
            Am    F  
Those power lines 
            Am    G 
Those power lines  

Am                   G 
  Someone's hiding underneath the stairs 
Am                          G              *      (walkup on 5th string to C) 
  I try to tell myself that.. no-ones there 
C                       F 
  But in the real country dark 
C                       G 
  Someone is dying under..neath the stars 
Am                          G 
  So I could just say fair thee well my friend 
Am                           G         *          (walkup on 5th string to C) 
  But just in case we never.. meet again 
C                             F  
  I'm hiding something in the ground 
C                           G 
  And only you know where it 
          Am     F       
It can be found 
          Am       G 
It can be found,oh yeah 

solo/outro - C | C | F | F | C | C | G | G 
             C | C | F | F | C | C | G | G | Am...   (strum once and let ring)