Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing  
  
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          Dm                      C              Bb           A          A7  
  You get a shiver in the dark, It's raining in the park, but meantime  
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Dm                             C          Bb        A     
  South of the river you stop and you hold everything  
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F                                 C  
  A band is blowing Dixie double four time  
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Bb                                            Dm            Bb  C  
  You feel all right when you hear that music ring  
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                Dm                  C         Bb           A  
  Well now you step inside but you don't see too many faces  
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Dm                      C                Bb        A  
  Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down  
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F                           C  
  Competition in other places  
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Bb                                    Dm            Bb  C      
  But the horns, they're blowing that sound  
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                  Bb   C   
  Way on down south  
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                      Dm         C  Bb  
    way on down south London town  
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                Dm           C   Bb      A             A7  
  You check out Guitar George,  he knows all the chords  
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Dm                          C                    Bb      A         F  
  Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing  
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                              C                  Bb  
  Yes, and an old guitar is all he can afford  
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                                               Dm         Bb C  
  When he gets under the lights to play his thing  
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Dm              C       Bb           A              A7   
  And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene  
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Dm                  C      Bb         A       A7  
  He's got a daytime job he's doing alright  
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                              C            Bb  
  He can play honky tonk like anything  
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                            Dm            Bb  
  Saving it up for Friday night  
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C                 Bb      C  
  With the Sultans,  
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                         Dm   
 with the Sultans of Swing  
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         Dm                         C            Bb         A     A7  
  And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner  
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Dm                              C            Bb               A         A7  
  Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies, and their platform soles  
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F                                  C                      Bb  
  They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band  
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                                     Dm        Bb  
  It ain't what they call rock and roll  
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C                  Bb  
  And the Sultans,   
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C                                    Dm  
  yeah the sultans, they played Creole.  Creole.  
    Dm C Bb    C        Creole      Dm    C Bb    C              ah ah  
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1. instrumental  
  
Ah ah  
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Dm                       C        Bb            A  
  And then the man he steps right up to the microphone  
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Dm              C                Bb     A  
  And says at last just as the time bell rings  
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F                     C  
  goodnight now it's time to go home'  
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Bb                                          Dm  
  Then he makes it fast with one more thing  
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C                    Bb  
  'We are the Sultans,   
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C                         Dm  
   we are the sultans of Swing  
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2. instrumental  
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