[DawnsMinstrel]

Hi everyone,

I'm back with my two cents. First a technical matter. As we all know, Gord capos at fret two. Which means that what we casually refer to as a "G" (fret three of 6 fret 2 of five fret 3 of 1 ) when referred to the capo position is in fact an A and so on. This is a distinction that tends not to be made most of the time but it drives me a bit crazy. That said I will speak as if the capo is the nut as is customary and put the actual chords in parentheses.

Unsettled is pretty close. Em9(F#m9) would work. What I'm hearing is different on different verses. In verse 1 I hear Bm flat 6(C#m flat 6). It's played on the middle four strings with the 5th string fretted at 2(4) and the 4th string fretted at 4(6) and the g and b strings played open(2). From there he keeps that fingering but plays an E(F#) in the base which makes that same configuration into an Em sus2(F#m sus2).

In verse two it sounds like the configuration I described above is the same for the 5th 4th and 2nd strings, but that the g string is now fretted at 2(4) which makes the chord a
Bm7(C#m7) that's missing its minor third. I think I prefer the sound of verse one to verse two, but they both work.

An interesting thing I noticed along the way: The notes for the part of the lyric that starts with "I was only" and ends on "to get" form what's called the phrygian mode of the G(A) major scale. This is just the G(A) scale played starting on the B(C#) instead of the G(A) below and ending on the B(C#) a major 3rd above the octave.

I hope this helps and that the parenthetic chords don't drive the rest of you crazy. That's what I get for studying jazz.

Happy picking.

Tim