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You get a shiver in the dark |
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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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A band is blowing Dixie double four time |
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You feel alright when you hear that music ring |
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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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Too much competition too many other places |
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But not too many horns can make that sound |
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Way on downsouth way on downsouth London town |
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You check out Guitar George he knows all the chords |
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Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing |
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And an old guitar is all he can afford |
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When he gets up under the lights to play his thing |
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And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene |
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He's got a daytime job he's doing alright |
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He can play honky tonk just like anything |
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Saving it up for Friday night |
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With the Sultans 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 played Creole |
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And the man he steps right up to the microphone |
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And says at last just as the time bell rings |
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'Thank you goodnight now it's time to go home' |
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And he makes it fast with one more thing |
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'We are the Sultans of Swing' |