Sultans Of Swing

Old76 Music-inspired Art 2013

Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler Songs Illustrated

DIRE STRAITS

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Sultans Of Swing

Music & lyrics by Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler 1978

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You get a shiver in the dark

It's a rainin' in the park, but meantime

South of the river you stop and you hold everything

A band is blowin' Dixie double four time

You feel alright when you hear the music ring...

 

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

Comin' in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down

Competition in other places...

Oh but the horns they blowin' that sound

Way on down south, way on down south London town

 

You check out Guitar George, he knows all the chords

But he's strictly rhythm he doesn't wanna make it cry or sing

They've said 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 doin' alright

He can play the honky tonk like anything

Savin' it up, 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 'bout any trumpet playing band

It ain't what they call rock and roll

And the Sultans... yeah the Sultans, they play Creole

 

Creole

 

Uh huh

 

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'

And he makes it fast with one more thing

'We are the Sultans... We are the Sultans of Swing'

 

 

 

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