In search of the lost chord

Alan Bidmade · From: Newcastle upon Tyne UK

I recently received a tab from John Russell - Sleepless Nights - Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris. Bliss!
As a bit of a clunker on psg, I've been listening and working out the chords on the guitar to be more familiar with the psg changes.
I've struggled to find one chord, and I hope someone will see this and help me out.
Towards the end of the first verse, the lyrics go...
'and wonder who is kissing you'. On the word 'you' the chord is Em and there's a mystery chord before the D7 which takes us up to G for @Oh these sleepless nights...
Anybody got the mystery chord they'd like to share?
It's driving me mad!
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Andrew Frost · From: Toronto, Ontario

Is it the Dm that's eluding you?

G D7 G, C F, B7 Em Dm G, C D7 G...

Clever take on the tune.
The original is equally beautiful and perhaps more haunting, in Gb.
Transposed to G, the Everly Bros version with, I think, Jimmy Day on steel, would be..

G D7 G, C F, B7 Em Eb, G D7 G

Alan Bidmade · From: Newcastle upon Tyne UK

Andrew!
You got me 90% of the way there - I think it's a Dm7 (or even Dm6) that leads into the D7 and resolution to G.
Brilliant, and thank you Very Happy

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Malcolm McMaster · From: Beith Ayrshire Scotland

Alan is this any help, on the tab/chord sheet Key of B. It shows G#maddC# , no earthly idea of what that is or how to play it.😳
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Chris Brooks · From: Providence, Rhode Island

Don't know the tune but Malcom's chord looks like a G# minor with a C# added.

The C# is the 4th of G#, right? So this would be a G minor suspended 4th.

Fred Treece · From: California, USA

Andrew has it. The steel is playing an F triad, the bass is on D, so the chord is Dm7. There is no D7 preceding the G chord in that part of the song.

If you think of the song in the key of C, the section with the mystery chord that goes Em/Dm-G-C is a 3m/2m-5-1 change.

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