[ti:Sultans Of Swing]
[ar:Mark Knopfler]
[al:The Best of Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler - Private Investigations]
[00:13.18]You get a shiver in the dark
[00:14.97]It's raining in the park but meantime
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[00:20.52]South of the river you stop and you hold everything
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[00:27.18]A band is blowing dixie double four time
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[00:33.36]You feel alright when you hear that music ring
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[00:42.36]Now you step inside but you don't see too many faces
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[00:49.55]Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
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[00:56.72]Competition in other places
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[01:03.05]But the horns can blowing that sound
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[01:09.65]Way on downsouth way on downsouth London town
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[01:27.30]You check out guitar george he knows all the chords
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[01:34.60]Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing
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[01:41.52]And an old guitar is all he can afford
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[01:47.98]When he gets up under the lights to play his thing
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[01:57.40]And harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
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[02:03.87]He's got a daytime job he's doing alright
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[02:10.87]He can play honky tonk just like anything
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[02:17.29]Saving it up for Friday night
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[02:23.86]With the sultans with the sultans of swing
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[02:42.28]And a crowd of young boys
[02:43.75]They're fooling around in the corner
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[02:49.48]Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies
[02:51.44]And their platform soles
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[02:55.93]They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band
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[03:02.58]It ain't what they call rock and roll
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[03:13.04]And the sultans played creole
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[04:13.56]And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
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[04:20.37]And says at last just as the time bell rings
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[04:27.61]Goodnight now it's time to go home
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[04:33.39]And he makes it fast with one more thing
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[04:40.47]We are the sultans
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[04:43.65]We are the sultans of swing
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