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DMelanogaster, you'll find that those poignant chords are poly-harmonic and rely on superimposing one chord in the orchestration over another in the guitar, so he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. Re-score the guitar to account for the orchestral parts, or stay true to the original guitar part?
This song was written by a sixteen year old, and scored by his uncle, IIRC. It's written about a girl he'd only known for a month and never dated. The same girl is the subject of "Pretty Ballerina," the Left Bankes only other charting tune.