Sultans Of Swing Lyrics - Dire Straits - Dire Straits

You get a shiver in the dark 

It's raining in the park but meantime 

South of the river you stop and you hold everything 

A band is blowing Dixie double four time 

You feel alright when you hear that music ring 

Well now you step inside but you don't see too many faces 

Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down 

Competition in other places 

Ah but the horns, they blowing that sound 

Way on down south, way on down south, London town 

You check out Guitar George, he knows all the chords 

Mind, he's strictly rhythm, he doesn't want to make it cry or sing 

Yes, and an old guitar is all he can afford 

When he gets up under the lights to play his thing 

And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene 

He's got a daytime job, he's doing alright 

He can play the honky tonk like anything 

Saving it up for Friday night 

With the Sultans, with the Sultans of Swing 

And a crowd of young boys, they're fooling around in the corner 

Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles 

They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band 

It ain't what they call rock and roll 

Then the Sultans, yeah, the Sultans they play Creole 

Creole 

And then the man, he steps right up to the microphone 

And says at last, just as the time bell rings 

"Goodnight, now it's time to go home" 

Then he makes it fast with one more thing 

"We are the Sultans, we are the Sultans of Swing" 

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