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Artist: Mark Knopfler DIRE STRAITS
Track: Sultans of swing

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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 downsouth
Way on downsouth
London town
Check out guitar george, he knows-all the chords
Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make them 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
Savin' it up, for Friday night
With the Sultans
We're the Sultans of Swing
Then a crowd a young boys they're a foolin' 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 playin' band
It ain't what they call rock and roll
Then the Sultans
Yeah the Sultans they play creole, 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
And he makes it fast with one more thing

We are the Sultans
We are the Sultans of Swing
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The idea to write this song came to Mark Knopfler one rainy evening, when he hid in a bar somewhere in Ipswich and heard the last song of a band played there.
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"Sultans Of Swing" lyrics. Mark Knopfler Lyrics. "Sultans Of Swing" (performed by Dire Straits) (from "Metroland" soundtrack). You get a shiver in the dark
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Q:Who wrote “Sultans of Swing” by Dire Straits?
“Sultans of Swing” by Dire Straits was written by Mark Knopfler.
Q:When did Dire Straits's first album release?
Dire Straits's first album Sultans of Swing (Single) released on May 19, 1978.
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