People Ain't No Good Chords
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.
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