[ti:sultans of swing] [ar:dire straits] [al:350424] [by:] [offset:0] [00:13.22]You get a shiver in the dark [00:15.33]It's raining in the park but meantime [00:20.50]South of the river you stop and you hold everything [00:27.44]A band is blowing Dixie double four time [00:33.50]You feel alright when you hear that music ring [00:42.42]You step inside but you don't see too many faces [00:49.96]Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down [00:57.08]Too much competition too many other places [01:03.36]But not too many horns can make that sound [01:09.80]Way on downsouth way on downsouth London town [01:27.85]You check out Guitar George he knows all the chords [01:34.77]Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing [01:42.13]And an old guitar is all he can afford [01:48.28]When he gets up under the lights to play his thing [01:58.08]And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene [02:04.10]He's got a daytime job he's doing alright [02:06.91]He can play honky tonk just like anything [02:17.64]Saving it up for Friday night [02:24.48]With the Sultans with the Sultans of Swing [02:42.77]And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner now [02:49.83]Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles [02:52.77]They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band [03:02.98]It ain't what they call rock and roll [03:09.90]And the Sultans and the Sultans played Creole Creole [04:14.40]And the man he steps right up to the microphone [04:21.03]And says at last just as the time bell rings [04:28.11]'Goodnight now it's time to go home' [04:33.92]And he makes it fast with one more thing [04:40.94]'We are the Sultans we are the sultans of Swing'