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Sultans of Swing
Dire Straits
/ Dm - - - / - - - - / - - - - / - - - - /
/ - - - - / - - - - / - - - - / - - - - /
Dm C (½) Bb (½) A (2)
You get a shiver in the dark, it's a-raining in the park but meantime
Dm C (½) Bb (½) A (2)
South of the river you stop and you hold, everything
F (2) C (2)
A band is blowing Dixie, double four time
Bb (2)
You feel all right when you hear that music ring
/ Dm - - - / - - (Bb) - / C - - - / - - - - /
Dm C (½) Bb (½) A (2)
Well now you step inside but you don't see too many faces
Dm C (½) Bb (½) A (2)
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
F (2) C (2)
Competition in other places
Bb (2)
Oh, but the horns, they blowing that sound
/ Dm - - - / - - (Bb) - / C - - - / - - (Bb) - / C - - - / - - - - /
Way on down south, way on down south, London town
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
Dm C (½) Bb (½) A (2)
You check out guitar George he knows all the chords
Dm C (½) Bb (½) A (2)
Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing
F (2) C (2)
Yes, and an old guitar is all he can afford
Bb (2)
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing
/ Dm - - - / - - (Bb) - / C - - - / - - - - /
Dm C (½) Bb (½) A (2)
And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
Dm C (½) Bb (½) A (2)
He's got a daytime job, he's doing alright
F (2) C (2)
He can play the honky tonk like anything
Bb (2)
Saving it up for Friday night
/ Dm - - - / - - (Bb) - / C - - - / - - (Bb) - / C - - - / - - - - /
With the Sultans, with the Sultans of Swing
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
Dm C (½) Bb (½) A (2)
And a crowd of young boys, they're fooling around in the corner
Dm C (½) Bb (½) A (2)
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles
F (2) C (2)
They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band
Bb (2)
It ain't what they call rock and roll
/ Dm - - - / - - (Bb) - / C - - - / - - (Bb) - / C - - - / - - - - /
And the Sultans, yeah the Sultans, they played Creole, Creole
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
Solo 1: / Dm - - - / C - Bb - / A - - - / - - - - /
/ Dm - - - / C - Bb - / A - - - / - - - - /
/ F - - - / - - - - / C - - - / - - - - / Bb - - - / - - - - /
/ Dm - - - / - - (Bb) - / C - - - / - - (Bb) - / C - - - / - - - - /
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
Dm C (½) Bb (½) A (2)
And then the man, he steps right up to the microphone
Dm C (½) Bb (½) A (2)
And says at last, just as the time bell rings
F (2) C (2)
Goodnight, now it's time to go home
Bb (2)
And he makes it fast with one more thing
/ Dm - - - / - - (Bb) - / C - - - / - - (Bb) - / C - - - / - - - - /
We are the Sultans, we are the Sultans of Swing
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
Solo 2: / Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
Meedlies: / Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) - - - / C - - - / - - - - /
/ Dm - - (C) / (Bb) (hold)
Cues: (rest), Bb (staccato), Bb (staccato), C (hold)
End on cue
This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
