Sultans of Swing Chords by Dire Straits

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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 and [Bb] you hold [A] everything. _ _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ A band is blowing, Dixie, [C] double ball time.
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[Bb] You feel alright when you hear the [Dm] music play.
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_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ The [D] lights step inside, [C] but you don't [Bb] see too [A] many faces. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ Coming in out [C] of the [Bb] rain, you hear the [A] jazz go down.
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_ _ _ _ Competition in all the [C] places.
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_ _ But the horns, they [Dm] blow in that sound.
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[C] _ _ Way on down [Bb] south, _
_ [C] _ way on down south, [Dm] London [C] [Bb] town.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Check [Dm] out Guitar [C] John, _ [Bb] _ [A] he knows all the chords.
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Man, he's stricken [C] with rhythm, he [Bb] doesn't want to make [A] a cry or sing.
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_ _ He's standing on the guitar, he [C] _ _ can't fall.
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_ When he gets up under the lights, play his [Dm] name.
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[Dm] _ And Harry [C] doesn't [Bb] mind [A] if he _ doesn't make the scene. _ _ _
[Dm] He's got a [C] day, time's [Bb] up, he's [A] doing alright.
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_ _ He can play the honk [C]-tonk like anything.
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_ _ Saving it up, Friday [G] night, [Dm] _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [C] _ with the [Bb] Sultans. _ _
_ [C] _ _ With the _ Sultans [D] off [Dm] swing.
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[D] And a [Dm] crowd of young boys, [C] they're [Bb] fooling around [A] in the corner. _ _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ London dressed in [C] their fast brown [Bb] baggies and their [A] platform _ soles.
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_ They 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] _ _ And the [Bb] Sultans, _
_ [C] _ _ yeah the Sultans, [D] they play trio.
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[C] _ _ _ Trio. _ _ _
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[Dm] _ And then the [C] man steps [Bb] right up [A] to the microphone. _ _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ And says [C] at last, [Bb] just as the [A] time bell rings. _ _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ Goodnight, _ now it's [C] time to go home. _
[Bb] _ _ Then he makes it fast with 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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[Dm] _ _ [Bb] The Sultans. _ _
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