Songwriter: Mark Knopfler
Released: 1978
Lyrics
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You get a shiver in the dark
It's a raining in the park but meantime
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie double four time
You feel alright when you hear the music ring
Well now you step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain they hear the jazz go down
Competition in other places
Uh but the horns they blowin' that sound
Way on down south way on down south London town
You check out guitar George he knows all the chords
Mind it's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing
They said an old guitar is all he can afford
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing
And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
He's got a daytime job he's doing alright
He can play the Honky Tonk like anything
Saving it up for Friday night
With the Sultans we're the Sultans of swing
Then a crowd young boys they're fooling around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles
They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band
It ain't what they call Rock and Roll
And the Sultans yeah the Sultans they play Creole
And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings
Goodnight now it's time to go home
Then he makes it fast with one more thing
We are the Sultans we are the Sultans of swing