Sultans Of Swing

 

You get a shiver in the dark

It's been raining in the park but meantime

South of the river you stop and you hold everything

A band is blowing Dixie double four time

Bb Dm Bb / C

You feel all right when you hear that music ring

 

You step inside but you don't see too many faces

Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down

Too much competition too many other places

Bb Dm Bb / C

But not too many horns can make that sound

Bb / C Dm C Bb C Dm C Bb C

Way on down south way on down south London town

 

Dm C / Bb A

You check out guitar George he knows all the chords

Mind he s strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing

And an old guitar is all he can afford

Dm Bb / C

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 honky tonk just like anything

Bb Dm Bb / C

Saving it up for Friday night

Bb / C Dm C Bb C Dm C Bb C

With the sultans with the sultans of swing

 

And a crowd of young boys they're fooling 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 playing band

Bb Dm Bb / C

It ain't what they call rock and roll

Bb / C Dm C Bb C Dm C Bb C

And the sultans played Creole

 

And then the man he steps right up to the microphone

And says at last just as the time bell rings

thank you goodnight now it's time to go home

Bb Dm Bb / C

And he makes it fast with one more thing

we are the sultans of swing

 

 

* Alternates:

 

Capo III

 

Dm = Bm

C = A

Bb = G

A = F#

A7 = F#7

F = D

 

Open (These chords are not in the original key)

 

Dm = Am

C = G

Bb = F

A = E

A7 = E7

F = C

 

Open (These chords are not in the original key)

 

Dm = Em

C = D

Bb = C

A = B

A7 = B7

F = G

 

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