Sultans Of Swing chords
Dire Straits *

     

            
You get a shiv

  
er in the dark
             
It's been rain

            
ing in the par

      
k but meantime
            
South of the r

             
iver you stop 

            
and you hold e

    
verything
             
A band is blow

              
ing Dixie doub

   
le four time
            
You feel all r

              
ight when you 

              
hear that musi

      /                   
c ring

            
You step insid

             
e but you don'

            
t see too many

 
 faces
            
Coming in out 

             
of the rain to

            
 hear the jazz

    
 go down
             
Too much compe

              
tition too man

        
y other places
            
But not too ma

              
ny horns can m

             /                   
ake that sound
             
Way on down so

 /          
uth   way on d

            
own south Lond

              
on town

              
You check out 

           
guitar George 

 /         
    he knows a

ll the chords
            
Mind he s stri

             
ctly rhythm he

              
 doesn't want 

         
to make it cry

 or sing
             
And an old gui

             
tar is all he 

          
can afford
              
When he gets u

              
p under the li

              
ghts to play h

       /                   
is thing

            
And Harry does

           
n't mind if he

         
 doesn't make 

the scene
           
He's got a day

            
time job he's 

        
doing alright
             
He can play ho

              
nky tonk just 

     
like anything
            
Saving it up f

            
or Friday nigh

 /                   
t
              
With the sulta

  /        
ns     with th

             
e sultans of s

                      
wing

            
And a crowd of

              
 young boys th

             
ey're fooling 

            
around in the 


corner
            
Drunk and dres

             
sed in their b

            
est brown bagg

              
ies and their 


platform soles
             
They don't giv

              
e a damn about

     
 any trumpet p

laying band
            
It ain't what 

              
they call rock

        /                   
 and roll
              
And the sultan

 /       
s    played Cr

                               
eole

            
And then the m

             
an he steps ri

            
ght up to the 


microphone
           
And says at la

              
st just as the

           
 time bell rin

 
gs
             
thank you good

              
night now it's

 
 time to go ho

me
            
And he makes i

              
t fast with on

           / 
e more thing
              
we are the sul

                              
tans of swing

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* Alternate:

Capo III

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