[Verse 1]
B C# F#
January came and took my heart away
F# G#m F# C# B
Feb-ru-a-ry felt the same
A#m G#m F#
March, my hugs became hold ons
F# C# B
April, I huffed like porridge on the boil
B C# F#
Morning May, I'm downwind from your shampoo
F# G#m F# C# B G#m
Ichi, ni, san, go, roku, nana, hachi, kyuu, jyuu
F# C# B
June, I learned to count to ten in Japanese
B C# F#
Dry July, like wiping skin from my skull
F# G#m F# C# B
Instead, I visited family
A#m G#m
They told me I'm special
C# B
Hmm
[Verse 2]
B C# F#
Augustus came and stabilised me with my father's pain
F# G#m F# C# B
Relieving drug, diazepam
A#m G# F#
Life floats away
F# C# B
October, I swam back for my birthday
B C# F#
Firework display in a cafeteria of my old school
F# G#m F# C# B A#m G#m
Happ-i-er my cold, black sleep in my cold, deep bed
F# C# B
December, you sang at my funeral
[B-section]
F#/C# D#m F# C#
If it's depths to your rivers, I've picked one for you
F#/C# D#m F# C#
Oh, greedy with Ss but equalled by Is
F#/C# D#m F# C#
If it's stones for your pockets, I've collected a few
F#/C# D#m
To hold you down
F# C#
To hold you down
[Chorus]
B C# F# B
Mississippi, come back to me
B C# F# B
Oh, Mississippi, your cold, black sleep
B C# F# B
Oh, Mississippi
F# C# F#
Oh, oh, oh
[Break]
F#/C# D#m F# C#
F#/C# D#m F# C#
F#/C# D#m F# C#
F#/C# D#m F# C#
[Chorus]
B C# F# B
Mississippi, come back to me
B C# F# B
Come, Mississippi, from your cold, black sleep
B C# F# B
Oh, Mississippi
F# C# F#
Hmm
F# C# F#
Hmm