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Queenstown by Passenger - Guitar Chords

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Version 1
            Attempt to capture chords from the YouTube video Passenger posted 17 May 2020:
--.-/watch?ds49a-PuJ11dgTEA

Capo 3 to play along the original video linked above.
Capo 5 to play along with the version from Mike's new album "Patchwork":
-passenger.lnk.to/Patchwork
(all proceeds from streaming and downloading this album go to The Trussel Trust, a UK food bank charity)

He also plays a capo 5 version in his quarantine live stream #10 (song starts at 20:31):
--.-/watch?ds49a15cAvqCXJ2k

The chord shapes listed below are intended to capture the way he plays things while fingerpicking.
In particular, pay attention to the chord descriptions for the instrumental passage before verse 3. I don't
know if G7sus2 and GmMaj7 are appropriate chords in context, but those were the names I could find for the
3-string voicings he appears to be playing at that point.

[Chords]
C        x32010
C*       x32013
Cadd11   x32011
G5       3x003x
G        3x0003
Fsus2    1x301x
F6sus2   1x303x
Em/G     xx505x
C/G      3x2013
Gadd9    3x0005
Am9      x0x008
A7sus2   x0x007
F*       xx3215
G7sus2   xx7x6x
G/B      xx9x8x


[Intro]
C Cadd11 C  G5  Fsus2 F6sus2 C
Am7 Em/G Am7 G C/G G F Fsus2 G

[Verse 1]
C                          G
When I think back to that morning in Queenstown
   Fsus2           C
my heart starts to ache
Am7                         G
sitting in the shade of the hire car
F                            C
throwing stones into the lake
                         G
we weren't to know that life would throw
         Fsus2     G            Am7
a little more than we could take
     Fsus2                      C
if I ever get back to Queenstown
  F              G       C
I won't make the same mistake

[Chorus 1]
                     F                C
Do you remember that water on our skin
        G               Am
cold as ice and sweet as gin?
         F
drunk on love and life, yeah
C                        G   C/G G
we drank the whole thing down
                F           C
I remember that soft summer air
            E7              Am
the golden sunlight in your hair
            F
singing and laughing
C                      G   Gsus4 G
driving the coast road down
             C
to Queenstown

[Instrumental]
  Cadd11 C G5  Fsus2 F6sus2 C
Am7 G C/G G F Fsus2 G

[Verse 3]
C                    G
Do you remember that evening in Queenstown
Fsus2               C
walking down by the pier?
Am7                     G
sun going down to the Piano Man
        F                    C
and the moon shining down so clear
                   G
drinking wine and feeling fine
        Fsus2  G   Am7
oh, and we had no idea
     Fsus2                      C
If I ever get back to Queenstown
     F            G       C
I'll have one for you, my dear

[Chorus 2]
                    F           C
Do you remember the water that night
           G                     Am
shimmering under the restaurant lights?
         F
drunk on love and life, yeah
C                            G Gsus4 G
we drank the whole thing down
               F               C
I remember the magic in the air
            E7                Am
the silver moonlight in your hair
       F
making love
    C                 G    Gsus4 G
and sleeping safe and sound
N.C.
in Queenstown

[Instrumental]
C C* Gadd9 G Am9 A7sus2 F F*
C*   G5 Gsus4 F  G
C    G C/G G Am7 Em/G G7sus2 G/B
C    G5 Gsus4 G  Fsus2  G

[Verse 3]
C                   G
Life goes fast, now years have passed
        Fsus2           C
and I'm living on my own
          Am7
I see you now and again
        G
through mutual friends
       F                       G
but we know that bird has flown
C                              G
  Sitting on the couch in this big old house
     Fsus2        G     Am7
I've never felt so alone
     Fsus2                      C
If I ever get back to Queenstown
  F         G       Am7
I might not make it home
     Fsus2                      C
If I ever get back to Queenstown
F       G        C
I might not come home

[Outro]
   Cadd11 C G5
Fsus2 F Gsus4 G C
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