Em                D     G               C
If everybody were poor, we would all be rich
Em               D                        G               C
If everybody up on this Earth were poor, we would all be rich
Em          D                    G
If I had no work, I would enjoy life
C                          Em
I would put my family first
            D                     G
I would spend some time with my baby
C
I would love 'em more and more
Em D               G                  C
If I was poor, I'd cut down trees to build my roof
    Em            D
I'd hunt in the forest
        G             C
Get my fish from the ocean
Em            D                          G
Yeah, and we would live like a king and the queen
     C                               Em
And we would have a little princess or prince
    D                     G        C
We would never have felt more free


[Chorus]
Em     D            G                C
People, people will always be people to me
      Em     D            G                C
Yeah, people, people will always be people to me
         Em           D
Yeah, we do wrong, we do right
         G                C
Yeah, we do wrong and we do right
         Em               D
Yeah, we do wrong and do right
        G      C                         Em
'Cause people will always be people to me


[Verse]
      D                    G
Here comes another Friday (Friday)
    C                  Em
I haven't had work in weeks
  D                         G
I just wanna make a living (Living)
    C                             Em
And I promise I wouldn't need the sleep
     D                     G              C
If I could work every day, work every day

Work every day
   Em D               G               C
Oh no, work every day, work every day, work every day
  Em        D
I, I'd even work at night
                  G              C
I'd never take a day off rest of my life
                  Em                        D
I would send the kids to school, make sure they're alright
         G                    C
And make sure they're better than I, better than


[Chorus]
Em     D            G                C
People, people will always be people to me
      Em     D            G                C
Yeah, people, people will always be people to me
         Em           D
Yeah, we do wrong, we do right
         G                C
Yeah, we do wrong and we do right
         Em               D
Yeah, we do wrong and do right
        G      C                         Em D  G C Em D
'Cause people will always be people to me
        G
'Cause people
     C                   Em D
Will always be people to me


[Interlude]
                G                      C
J'peux jamais oublier cette année au pays
   Em           D G C
Ma Côte d'Ivoire
                         Em D
On avait pas beaucoup mais
                      G C
On était content, quoi
             Em          D
Ça m'a appris de ne pas me plaindre
          G                 C  Em D
Et d'être bien avec qui je suis
                        G C
Nous sommes que des hommes
                   Em D G C
On est tous pareils
              Em D                    G C Em D G
On fait du bien et puis on fait du mal
              C
Mais c'est ton choix


[Chorus]
Em     D            G                C
People, people will always be people to me
      Em     D            G                C
Yeah, people, people will always be people to me
         Em           D
Yeah, we do wrong, we do right
         G                C
Yeah, we do wrong and we do right
         Em               D
Yeah, we do wrong and do right
        G      C                         Em  D G C
'Cause people will always be people to me

Em D G C

[Outro]
           Em                  D
People are people, that's all I know
           G                   C
People are people, that's all I know
           Em                      D
Hey, people are people, that's all I know
           G                   C
People are people, that's all I know
               Em               D
And people will be and people they are
               G                   C
And people are people, that's all I know
        Em
Oh no no
           D
That's all I know
G            C
That's all I know