Last Year chords by Alt-J

verse 1

G    A        D
January came and took my heart away
D  Em D A G
Feb-ru-a-ry felt the same
F#m    Em        D
March, my hugs became hold ons
D    A          G
April, I huffed like porridge on the boil
G      A         D
Morning May, I'm downwind from your shampoo
D Em  D  A  G           Em
Ichi, ni, san, go, roku, nana, hachi, kyuu, jyuu
D         A        G
June, I learned to count to ten in Japanese
G       A      D
Dry July, like wiping skin from my skull
 D   Em D  A G
Instead, I visited family
F#m     Em
They told me I'm special
A  G
Hmm

verse 2
 G        A           D
Augustus came and stabilised me with my father's pain
 D Em  D   A G
Relieving drug, diazepam
F#m E    D
Life floats away
D        A      G
October, I swam back for my birthday
  G         A        D
Firework display in a cafeteria of my old school
D  Em D A G         F#m  Em
Happ-i-er my cold, black sleep in my cold, deep bed
 D      A     G
December, you sang at my funeral

B-section
    D/A      Bm      D       A
If it's depths to your rivers, I've picked one for you
  D/A     Bm   D      A
Oh, greedy with Ss but equalled by Is
    D/A       Bm      D      A
If it's stones for your pockets, I've collected a few
  D/A   Bm
To hold you down
  D    A
To hold you down

G   A   D      G
Mississippi, come back to me
G     A      D      G
Oh, Mississippi, your cold, black sleep
G  A   D G
Oh, Mississippi
D  A  D
Oh, oh, oh

Break
D/A  Bm  D  A
D/A  Bm  D  A
D/A  Bm  D  A
D/A  Bm  D  A

G   A   D      G
Mississippi, come back to me
G       A        D      G
Come, Mississippi, from your cold, black sleep
G  A   D G
Oh, Mississippi
D  A  D
Hmm
D  A  D
Hmm