Sultans of Swing
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1. 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
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you feel alright when you hear that music ring.
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2. Well, now you step
inside, but you don't see too many faces,
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coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down.
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Too much competition, too many other
places,
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but not too many
horns can blow that sound.
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Way on down south, way on down south
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3. You check out
Guitar George, he knows all
the chords,
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mind he's strictly rhythm, he doesn't want to make
it cry or sing.
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This and an old guitar is all he can
afford,
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when he gets up under the lights to play his
thing.
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4. And Harry doesn't mind, if he doesn't make the scene.
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he's got a daytime
job, he's doing alright.
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He can play honkytonk like anything, saving it up for Friday night,
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with the
Sultans, with
the Sultans of Swing.
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5. And a crowd of
young boys, they're just fooling around in the corner.
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Drunk and dressed in their best brown
baggies and their platform soles.
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They don't give a damn about any trumpet
playing band,
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it ain't what they
call rock `n` roll.
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And the Sultans, yeah, the Sultans, they played Creole.
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6. And then the man, he just steps right up to
the microphone,
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and says his last, just as the time bell rings.
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“Thank you, goodnight, now it’s time to go
home“,
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and he makes it
fast with one more thing.
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“We are the Sultans, we
are the Sultans of Swing“.
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Am - F - G - Am - F - G (3x) ….
(orig. = capo
5th) (Dire Straits)