Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits

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Capo: Fret 5
Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E

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[Intro lead]

(single snare beat)
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[Verse]

           
You get a shiv

er in the dark
             
it's raining i

             
n the park 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 alrig

              
ht when you he

              
ar that music 

    
ring
 
              
(Now) you step

            
 inside but yo

            
u don't see to

          
o many faces
            
coming in out 

             
of the rain to

              
 (you) hear th

            
e jazz go down
             
too much compe

          
tition too man

y other places
             
but not too ma

              
ny horns can m

         
ake that sound
(But not too many horns are blowing that sound)


[Chorus]


        way on

 downsouth

        way on

 downsouth

            
London town

      

   


[Verse]

              
you check out 

            
Guitar George 

            
he knows all t

      
he chords
            
mind he's (his

              
) strictly rhy

              
thm 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 

             
doesnb't mind 

            
if he doesn't 

make the scene
            
  he('s) got a

            
 daytime job h

              
e's doing al(l

  
)right
             
  he can play 

              
honky tone jus

    
t like anythin

g
(He can play the honky tonk like anything)
             
  saving it up

            
 for friday ni

     
ght


[Chorus]

              
with the sulta

     
ns
              
with the sulta

            
ns of swing
                             ---


[Verse]

            
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

            
 ('bout) any t

rumpet playing

 band
             
it ain't what 

              
they call rock

          
 and roll


[Chorus]

              
and the sultan

   
s
              
and the sultan

            
s played creol

   
e
(Yeah the Sultans they played Creole)

                                ---


[Lead 1]

(chords: Follow 1 full verse)

            
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


[Chorus]

              
we are the sul

     
tans
              
we are the sul

                
tans of swing
 
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