Sultans of Swing

Dire Straits

	intro lead:		Dm	C	C	Dm	C	C

	Dm	C	Bb	A
You get a	shiver in the dark, it's	raining in the	park, but	meantime:

	Dm	C	Bb	A
	South of the river you	stop and you	hold every	thing.

	F	C	Bb	Dm	Bb	C
	A band is blowing Dixie double	four time -	you feel alright when you hear that music	ring.

	Dm	C	Bb	A
You step	inside but you	don't see	too many	faces;

	Dm	C	Bb	A
	Coming in out of the	rain and hear the	jazz go	down,

	F	C	Bb	Dm	Bb	C
	Competition in other	places -	but the horns keep blowing that	sound.

	Dm	C		Bb	A
You check out	guitar george			he knows	all the chords.

	Dm	C	Bb	A
	Mind his strictly rhythm	he doesn't	want to make it	cry or sing.

	F	C	Bb	Dm	Bb	C
	And an old guitar is	all he can afford -	when he gets up under the lights to play his	thing.

	Dm	C	Bb	A	Dm	C	Bb	A
	And Harry doesn't	mind	if he doesn't	make the scene;	he's got a daytime	job he's	doing al	right.

	F	C	Bb	Dm	Bb	C
	He can play the honky tonk like	anything -	saving it up for friday	night.

	Dm	C	Bb	A
And a	crowd of young boys they're	fooling a	round in the	corner

	Dm	C	Bb	A
	Drunk and dressed in their	best brown	baggies and their	platform soles.

	F	C	Bb	Dm	Bb	C
	They don't give a damn about any	trumpet playing band -	It ain't what they call rock and	roll.

	Dm	C	Bb	A	Dm	C	Bb	A	A7
	And then the man he	steps right	up to the	microphone;	and says at	last just as the	time bell	rings:

	F	C	Bb	Dm	Bb	C
"	Goodnight now it's	time to go home." -	And he makes it fast with one more	thing: