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Night Of The Swallow

Kate Bush

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"Night of the Swallow"
From 1982's "The Dreaming"

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B		Bm/A			G					B
The night	doesn't like it		looks just like your face on the	moon to me

Bm/A		G				B
And I won't	let you do what you want to	do 	it's

F#m/A		G			F#m
funny how	even now you're	laughing


3/4
E	C#/E#	F#m
I won't let you do it


Verses 2+3

B		Bbm/A			G					B
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#m/A			G					B
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#m/A		G			F#m
funny how	even now you're	miles away
hold the sky on the other side	 of	borderline

3/4
E	C#/E#	F#m		E	C#/E#	F#m
I won't let you do it		I won't let you do it

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

4/4
G		F#m/A		B
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
G		A		Bm		F#m/A
		With a hired 	plane and no 	names mentioned

G		A			Bm		F#m/A
Tonight's the	night of the flight be-	fore you know	 I'll be over the 

Bm	F#m/A		G		A		Bm
water 	like a		swallow	There's no risk	 I'll wisk them

F#m/A			G			A
up in the moonlight	and though pigs can	fly they'll never

Bm		F#m/A			Bm	F#m/A
find me posing as the night and I'm	home	before the

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

2.

A			Bm			Bm/A
Give me a break	Oh let me try give me	something to show for my

G			F#m/A				Bm			Bm/A
mis'rable life give me	something to take would you	break even my wings	Like a swallow

Bm	F#m	G
Let me let me go	...with a hired plane


instrumental between:
F#m/A	 	Bm	Bm/A		G	F#m/A		Bm	Bm/A	

Bm	F#m	G
Let me let me go	...with a hired plane


end:

4/4
Bm	F#m	G	B

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Night Of The Swallow

Kate Bush