Sultans Of Swing Chords by Dire Straits

[Dm] _ _ _ _ [C] _ [Dm] _ _ _
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You get a shiver in the [C] dark, it's [Bb] raining in the [A] park, mean time.
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[Dm] Sound of the [C] river, you stop [Bb] and you hold [A] everything. _ _ _
[F] A band is blowing, Dixie, [C] double ball time. _ _
[Bb] You feel alright when you hear the [Dm] music play.
What do you think [Bb] of it?
[C] _ _ _ [Dm] Well, I step [C] inside, but you [Bb] don't see too [A] many faces.
_ _ [Dm] Coming in [C] out of the rain, [Bb] you hear the [A] jazz go down.
_ _ [F] _ _ Optician, we know [C] about places.
_ _ _ [Bb] How about the horns, they blow a [Dm] nice sound.
_ [Bb] [C] Way on down [Bb] south, [C] way on down [Dm] south, [C] Hundreds of towns.
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[C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ [F] _ [Bb] _ [F] _
[C] _ _ _ [Dm] Check out Guitar [C] George, [Bb] he [A] knows all the chords.
_ _ [Dm] Money's trickling with [Bb] him, he doesn't want to make it [A] cry or sing.
_ [F] _ This ain't an old [C] guitar, it's all he can afford.
[Bb] _ When he gets up under the lights to play [Dm] his band,
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Dm] then Harry [C] doesn't mind [Bb] if he [A] doesn't make the scene.
[Dm] He's got a day [C] time job, [Bb] he's doing [A] alright. _ _ _
[F] He can play the honk-tonk [C] like anything.
[Am] _ _
[Bb] Saving it up Friday [Dm] night with [Bb] _
[C] _ the sulkins, [Bb] _ [C] _ with the sulkins [D] off [Am] swing.
[Bb] _ [F] _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _
[D] Then the crowded [Dm] young [C] boys start [Bb] fooling around [A] in the corner. _ _
[Dm] Sunken, dressed [C] in their best brown [Bb] baggies and their [A] platform soles.
[F] _
We don't give a damn about [C] any trumpet playing band.
[Bb] It ain't what they call rock [Dm] and roll.
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[C] _ Then the [Bb] sultans, [C] _ yeah the sultans, [D] they play [Am] Creole.
[Bb] _ _ [C] _ Creole. _
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[Dm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ Creole.
Then [Dm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Dm] the [C] man steps [Bb] right up [A] to the microphone. _ _
[Dm] Says [C] at last, [Bb] just as the [A] time bell rings. _ _
[F] _ Goodnight, [C] now it's time to go home.
[Bb] Then he makes it fast, one [Dm] more thing.
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[C] _ We are the [Bb] sultans, [C] _ we are the [Dm] sultans off swing.
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