Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing

Sultans Of Swing lyrics

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

Now you step in

Side

But you don’t see

Too many faces

Coming’ out of the rain to hear the jazz

Go down

Competition in other places

But the horns keep blowing 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

Is there 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 the honky tonk like anything

Saving it up for Friday night

With the Sultans

With the Sultans of Swing

And then the man he steps

Right up to the microphone

And says at last just as the time bell rings

Good night

Now it’s time

To go home

Then he makes it fast with one more thing

’We are the Sultans,

We are the Sultans of Swing’