Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing 
 
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  You get a shiver in the dark, It's raining in the park, but meantime 
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  South of the river you stop and you hold everything 
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F                                 C 
  A band is blowing Dixie double four time 
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  You feel all right when you hear that music ring 
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  Well now you step inside but you don't see too many faces 
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  Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down 
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  Competition in other places 
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  But the horns, they're blowing that sound 
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  Way on down south 
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    way on down south London town 
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  You check out Guitar George,  he knows all the chords 
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Dm                          C                    Bb      A         F 
  Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing 
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  Yes, and an old guitar is all he can afford 
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                                               Dm         Bb C 
  When he gets under the lights to play his thing 
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Dm              C       Bb           A              A7  
  And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene 
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Dm                  C      Bb         A       A7 
  He's got a daytime job he's doing alright 
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  He can play honky tonk like anything 
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                            Dm            Bb 
  Saving it up for Friday night 
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C                 Bb      C 
  With the Sultans, 
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                         Dm  
 with the Sultans of Swing 
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  And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner 
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  Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies, and their platform soles 
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  They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band 
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  It ain't what they call rock and roll 
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  And the Sultans,  
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  yeah the sultans, they played Creole.  Creole. 
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1. instrumental 
 
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  And then the man he steps right up to the microphone 
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Dm              C                Bb     A 
  And says at last just as the time bell rings 
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  goodnight now it's time to go home' 
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Bb                                          Dm 
  Then he makes it fast with one more thing 
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  'We are the Sultans,  
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C                         Dm 
   we are the sultans of Swing 
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2. instrumental 
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