A regular D, closed or open, sounds fine to me with the song.
An open D is (from bass to trebel) 2002, a closed one 2452.
It's my understanding that a 5 chord means you just play the root and the fifth, excluding the 3rd. So it's just an interval. If you want to play more than two strings, then, you're doubling notes. That's basically what you have with an open D... just don't play the E string (200x) ADAx. If you wanna play all the strings you could easily triple the A 2005, or this really pretty D5, 2 0 0 10.
There are bunches of other combinations. Just play around.
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