DIRE STRAITS - Sultans Of Swing lyrics

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You get a shiver in the dark<br>It's been raining in the park but meantime<br>South of the river you stop and you hold everything<br>A band is blowing dixie double four time<br>You feel all right when you hear that music ring<br><br>You step inside but you don't see too many faces<br>Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down<br>Too much competition too many other places<br>But not too many horns can make that sound<br>Way on downsouth way on downsouth london town<br><br>You check out guitar george he knows all the chords<br>Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing<br>And an old guitar is all he can afford<br>When he gets up under the lights to play his thing<br><br>And harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene<br>He's got a daytime job he's doing alright<br>He can play honky tonk just like anything<br>Saving it up for friday night<br>With the sultans with the sultans of swing<br><br>And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner<br>Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles<br>They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band<br>It ain't what they call rock and roll<br>And the sultans played creole<br><br>And then the man he steps right up to the microphone<br>And says at last just as the time bell rings<br>'thank you goodnight now it's time to go home'<br>And he makes it fast with one more thing<br>'we are the sultans of swing'