Dire Straits, Sultans Of Swing (1978)
Key: :[Em] (w: Mark Knopler)
INTRO: [Em x8]
VERSE 1:
You get a
[Em] shiver in the dark, it's a
[D] raining in the
[C] park but
[B] meantime
[Em] South of the river you
[D] stop and you
[C] hold every-
[B]-thing
[G] A band is blowing Dixie, double four
[D] time
[C] You feel alright, when you hear that music
[Em] ring
[C] [D]
VERSE 2:
Now you
[Em] step inside but you
[D] don't see
[C] too many
[B] faces
[Em] Coming in out of the
[D] rain they hear the
[C] jazz go
[B] down
[G] Competition in other
[D] places
Ahh
[C] but the horns, they blowin' that
[Em] sound
BREAK 1:
[C] [D] Way on down south,
[C] [D] way on down south
[Em] London town
[C] [D] [D] //
[Em] [C] [D] [D]
VERSE 3:
You check out
[Em] guitar George
[D] [C], he knows
[B] all the chords
[Em] Mind he's strictly rhythm, he
[D] doesn't want to
[C] make it
[B] cry or sing
[G] And an old guitar is
[D] all he can afford
[C] When he gets up under the lights to play his
[Em] thing
[C] [D]
VERSE 4:
[Em] And Harry doesn't
[D] mind if he
[C] doesn't make the
[B] scene
[Em] He's got a daytime
[D] job he's
[C] doing al-
[B]-right
[G] He can play honky tonk just like
[D] anything
[C] Saving it up for Friday
[Em] night
BREAK 2:
[C] [D] With the sultans,
[C] [D] with the sultans
of
[Em] swing
[C] [D] [D] //
[Em] [C] [D] [D]
VERSE 5:
And a
[Em] crowd of young boys they're
[D] fooling a-
[C]-round in the
[B] corner
[Em] Drunk and dressed in their
[D] best brown
[C] baggies and their
[B] platform soles
[G] They don't give a damn about any
[D] trumpet playing band
[C] It ain't what they call rock and
[Em] roll
BREAK 3:
[C] [D] And the sultans,
[C] [D] and the sultans
played
[Em] creole
[C] [D] [D] //
[Em] [C] [D] [D]
INSTRUMENTAL: [over VERSE + break]
VERSE 6:
[Em] And then the man
[D] steps right
[C] up to the
[B] microphone
[Em] And says at last just
[D] as the
[C] time bell
[B] rings
[G] Goodnight now it's
[D] time to go home
[C] And he makes it fast with one more
[Em] thing
BREAK 4:
[C] [D] We are the sultans,
[C] [D] we are the sultans
of
[Em] swing
[C] [D] [D] //
[Em] [C] [D] [D]
INSTRUMENTAL: [Em] [C] [D] [D] :
[Multiple Times] 