People Ain't No Good Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays646

People Ain't No Good by Nick Cave (and the Bad Seeds) is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords D, A, G and Em. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
Speed
  			  
               D          A         G  
People just ain't no good  
                    D          A        G  
I think that's well understood  
                      D           A         G  
You can see it everywhere you look  
                       A  
People just ain't no good  
  
  
The same are chords repeated over all the verses and choruses, until   
the bridge:  
  
        D                      G  
To our love send a dozen white lillies  
        D                  G  
To our love a valentine of blood  
        D                         G  
To our love let all the pink-eyed pigeons coo  
       Em                       A  
that people they just ain't no good  
  


    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
No microphone? You can still tap any string above to hear its exact reference pitch.

Metronome

100 BPM Andante