"Sultans of Swing" by Mark Knopfler appears on the self-titled Dire Straits album - 1978. It's a story song, told in the first person narrative about the London Jazz experience and is based on Knopfler's own experience of watching a band perform in a pub in Deptford, who called themselves The Sultans of Swing. via georgeplant061Highlight lyrics you want to quote as your Facebook status then click the ‘Post’ button.
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You get a shiver in the dark
It's a 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 the music ring
You step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain you hear the jazz go down
Competition in other places
But the horns they're blowing that sound
Way on down south, way on down south, 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
It's been 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 honky-tonk like anything
Saving it up for Friday night
With the Sultans, with the Sultans of Swing
And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in 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, yeah the Sultans they played Creole... Creole..
And then the man 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...
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