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SULTANS OF SWING
Dire Straits - 1978 (Key: F)


Dm   C   Bb   A7


Dm                C            Bb
You get a shiver in the dark
              Dm                A7
It's raining in the park but meantime
Dm                                     C
South of the river, you stop and you hold everything
Bb                              A7
A band is blowing Dixie, double-four time
Dm                        C
You feel alright when you hear the music ring


Dm                                       C
Well, now you step inside, but you don't see too many faces
Bb                                              A7
Coming in out of the rain, they hear the jazz go down
F                          C
Competition in other places
Bb                       Dm
Uh, but the horns they blowin' that sound
Bb                  C
Way on down south
Bb                       C
Way on down south, London town


Dm                    C            Bb
You check out guitar George, he knows all the chords
             Dm                           A7
Mind, it's strictly rhythm, he doesn't want to make it cry or sing
Dm                              C
They said an old guitar is all he can afford
Bb                              A7
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing


Dm                          C
And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
Bb                     A7
He's got a daytime job, he's doing alright
Dm                        C
He can play the honky-tonk like anything
Bb              A7
Savin' it up for Friday night
Dm      C   Bb
With the Sultans
Dm            C   Bb
We're the Sultans of Swing


Dm                                        C
Then a crowd of young boys, they're foolin' around in the corner
Bb                                               A7
Drunk and dressed in their best, brown baggies and their platform soles
Dm                                        C
They don't give a damn about any trumpet playin' band
Bb                A7
It ain't what they call rock and roll
Dm      C   Bb
And the Sultans
Dm                          C   Bb
Yeah, the Sultans, they play Creole, Creole


Dm   C   Bb   A7
Dm   C   Bb   A7


Dm                                  C
And then the man, he steps right up to the microphone
Bb                          A7
And says at last, just as the time bell rings
Dm                         C
"Goodnight, now it's time to go home"
Bb                  A7
Then he makes it fast with one more thing


Dm      C   Bb
"We are the Sultans
Dm            C   Bb
We are the Sultans of Swing"


C   Dm   Bb   C
C   Dm   Bb   C


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