Sultans of Swing — Mark Knopfler / Dire Straits

   You get a shiver in the dark
   It's been 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 all right when you hear that music ring
   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
   But not too many horns can make that sound
   Way on downsouth way on downsouth 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
   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 honky tonk 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 played Creole
   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 of Swing'.

Mark Knopfler

(1949)

performed: Dire Straits

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