Sultans Of Swing lyrics by Dire Straits
You get a shiver in the darkIt'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 rings
By now you step inside
but you don't see too many faces
coming in out the rain
to hear the jazz go down
Competition in other places
All but the horns
keep blowing that sound
Way on down south
way on down south London town
You check out guitar, George
he knows all the chords
Mine, he's strictly rhythm
he doesn't wanna
make it cry or sing
Just and an old guitar
is all he can afford
when he gets up under
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, Friday night
with the sultans
with the sultans of swing
And a crowd of young boys
there fooling around in the corner
Drunk and dressed 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 and
the sultans played creole
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
