Dire Straits
Sultans Of Swing
Dire Straits (1978)

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You get a shiver in the dark it's raining in the park but meantime
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South of the river you stop and you hold everything
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  A band is blowing Dixie double four time
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   You feel alright when you hear that music ring

Now you step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Too much competition too many other places
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   But not too many horns are blowing that sound

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               Way on downsouth
               Way on downsouth, London town

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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
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 tone just 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

  And the sultans
  Yeah the sultans, they played creole, yeah creole, ah ah

Couplet muet  
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  Refrain muet

And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings
Thank you goodnight, now it's time, to go home
And he makes it fast with one more thing

  We are the sultans
  We are the sultans of swing

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