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You're No Good

Bob Dylan

RockMedium for beginners4 chords

How to play it

Fingering diagrams for the shapes in this song. × = don't play, ○ = open string.

C×
F
G
Em

Chords & lyrics

Chord names sit directly above the word where you change.

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              Written by Jesse Fuller. This is Bob Dylan's version. 
 
From 'Bob Dylan' 1962. 
 
 
Intro: C       F     C         G 
       C                F               C     G 
 
Well I don't know why I love you like I do 
 
C                       F               C 
 
Nobody in the world can get along with you. 
 
                            F                    C     G 
 
You got the ways of a devil sleeping in a lion's den 
 
                           F                    C 
 
I come home last night you wouldn't even let me in. 
 
   Em                           F 
 
Oh sometimes you're as sweet as anybody want to be 
 
G                            C       N.C. 
 
When you get a crazy notion, jumpin' all over me 
 
         C                   F                  C      G 
 
Well you give me the blues because you're satisfied 
 
C                           F                  C 
 
An' you give me the blues I wanna lay down and die. 
 
  
 
  
C                F               C     G 
 
I helped you when you had no shoes on your feet, pretty mama 
C                       F               C 
 
I helped you when you had no food to eat. 
F                    C     G 
 
You're the kind of woman I just don't understand 
Em                           F 
 
You're takin' all my money and give it to another man. 
G                            C       N.C 
Well you're the kinda woman makes a man lose his brain 
C                   F                  C      G 
 
You're the kinda woman drives a man insane 
C                   F                  C      G 
 
You give me the blues because you're satisfied 
C                           F                  C 
 
You give me the blues I wanna lay down and die 
C                           F                  C 
 
Well you give me the blues, I wanna lay down and die 
          
 

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Chord set

C · F · G · Em

Practice tip

Loop the first two chords slowly until the change is clean, then add the rest.