The Animals - Year Of The Guru: Guitar Chords

Learn to play "Year Of The Guru" on your guitar with our detailed chord guide and lyrics. This page provides everything you need to perform this song on the guitar, including lyrics integrated with chords, chord diagrams, and a key transposer to match your vocal range.

Learn Year Of The Guru Guitar Chords and Lyrics by The Animals

This section will guide you through each part of the song, providing the guitar chords placed directly above the lyrics for easy playing. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced player, these elements will help you perform "Year Of The Guru" smoothly on your guitar.

For easier playing, use our Simplify Chords feature to remove difficult chords like barre.

    G                 F
My leader told me to jump in the river
The river was deep and the weather was winter
After a sailer very kindly saved me
My leader told me, you'd better take it easy
I took it so easy my leader called me lazy

             G
Through the lack of red meat
       F
Everything was getting hazy
Friends looked at me and said
Man, you gotta be crazy

D#  F   G
Oh, oh leader
Oh, oh leader

My leader said son you'd better
get yourself together
Never mind the fools who know
what we're getting into
But a forty mile walk would do
us both a world of good
And he sat down and watched me
take off down the road

Well, I walked so far my feet began to bleed
If this was good for me I just couldn't see it
A motorist picked me up and said
Look man, you must be crazy

Oh, oh leader
Oh, oh leader

My leader came to see me in a hospital bed
Well at least I really knew
that my leader really cared
After giving me a second-hand roach
He said where's your donation man
It's all for a good cause

He left me all alone to work the riddle out
But I just couldn't make it so I began to shout
They stuck a hypodermic deep down into me
Said, look out nurse I think we got a loony

Oh, oh leader
Okay baby follow me now
Follow your leader
All right

Now here I sit in a state-run asylum
Limitless, friendless but much more together
I decided to do some good book readin'
About the art of people leadin'

Now I'm the leader and they're being led
What's the matter if they're crazy
till you hear what I've said
Being the leader is really where its at
But just how long can a good thing last

Oh, oh leader
Oh, oh leader

Now listen to this baby
This is the year of the guru
Now the thing to do is to ask yourself
What can a guru do for me?
Then you say to yourself
I gotta get a guru


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A

Guitar chord A

D#

Guitar chord D#

F

Guitar chord F

G

Guitar chord G

Here you can see detailed diagrams for each guitar chord used in the song. Utilize our key transposer to adjust the chords to a key that better fits your singing range. Simply select the desired key, and the chords throughout this page will update automatically, ensuring you can play and sing comfortably.

If you are also interested in learning how to play "Year Of The Guru" on the ukulele, check out the chords on our sister site: Ukulele Chords for "Year Of The Guru" by The Animals.

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