B5            B5                  G5                              B5
The night      doesn't like it            looks just like your face on the      moon to me

B5            G5                        B5
And I won't      let you do what you want to      do       it's

F#5            G5                  F#5
funny how      even now you're      laughing


3/4
E5      C#      F#5
I won't let you do it


Verses 2+3

B5            Bb5                  G5                              B5
If you go      I'll let the law know      and the'll head you off when you      touch the ground
In Malta      catch a swallow      for all of the guilty to                  set them free

F#5                  G5                              B5
Ohh, please don't go      through with this I don't like the      sound of it, it's
Wings fill the            window and they beat                  and bleed, they

F#5            G5                  F#5
funny how      even now you're      miles away
hold the sky on the other side       of      borderline

3/4
E5      C#      F#5            E5      C#      F#5
I won't let you do it            I won't let you do it

5/4
E5      C#      F#5      E5      C#
I won't let you go      through with it

4/4
G5            F#5            B5
Meet them      over at            Dover
I'll just       pilot the      motor
Take them      over the      water
(2.only):
Like a swallow flying to      Malta 



6/8
G5            A5            B5            F#5
            With a hired       plane and no       names mentioned

G5            A5                  B5            F#5
Tonight's the      night of the flight be-      fore you know       I'll be over the 

B5      F#5            G5            A5            B5
water       like a            swallow      There's no risk       I'll wisk them

F#5                  G5                  A5
up in the moonlight      and though pigs can      fly they'll never

B5            F#5                  B5      F#5
find me posing as the night and I'm      home      before the

G            (1. F#m/A      and to 2. "In Malta...")
morning

2.

A5                  B5                  B5
Give me a break      Oh let me try give me      something to show for my

G5                  F#5                        B5                  B5
mis'rable life give me      something to take would you      break even my wings      Like a swallow

B5      F#5      G5
Let me let me go      ...with a hired plane


instrumental between:
F#5             B5      B5            G5      F#5            B5      B5      

B5      F#5      G5
Let me let me go      ...with a hired plane


end:

4/4
B5      F#5      G5      B5