Dire_Straits_06_Sultans_Of_Swing

[00:11.78] You get a shiver in the dark,

[00:13.59] It's raining in the park, but meantime.

[00:18.81] South of the river you stop and you hold everything.

[00:26.04] A band is blowin' Dixie double-four time.

[00:31.69] You feel alright when you hear that music ring.

[00:40.72] Well now, you step inside but you don't see too many faces.

[00:47.92] Comin' in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down.

[00:55.14] Competition in other places,

[01:01.55] Uh, but the horns they blowin' that sound.

[01:07.90] Way on down south,

[01:11.19] Way on down south, London-town.

[01:25.81] You check out Guitar George,

[01:28.85] He knows all the chords.

[01:32.96] Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing.

[01:39.94] They said an old guitar is all he can afford,

[01:46.21] When he gets up under the lights to play his thing.

[01:55.98] And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene.

[02:02.14] He's got a daytime job he's doing alright.

[02:08.99] He can play the honky tonk like anything.

[02:15.58] Savin' it up for Friday night.

[02:22.30] With the Sultans,

[02:25.59] With the Sultans of Swing.

[02:40.21] And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner.

[02:47.43] Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles.

[02:54.21] They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band.

[03:00.68] It ain't what they call Rock and Roll.

[03:07.46] And the Sultans,

[03:10.81] Yeah, the Sultans played Creole.

[03:17.18] Creole, baby.

[04:11.57] And the man he steps right up to the microphone.

[04:18.33] And says at last, just as the time bell rings,

[04:24.93] "Goodnight!"

[04:26.69] "Now it's time to go home."

[04:31.21] And he makes it fast with one more thing.

[04:37.99] "We are the Sultans,"

[04:41.17] "We are the Sultans of Swing."