Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing Lyrics
You get a shiver in the dark
It's raining in the park but meantime
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie double four time
You feel alright when you hear that music ring
Well, now you step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Competition in other places
Oh, but the horns, they're blowing that sound
Way on down south, way on down south London town
You check out guitar, George
He knows all the chords
Mind it's strictly rhythm
He doesn't wanna make it cry or sing
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 the honky tonk like anything
Saving it up for Friday night
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
It ain't what they call "Rock 'n' Roll"
And the Sultans, yeah, the Sultans, they play Creole, Creole
And then the man, he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings
"Goodnight, now it's time to go home."
Then he makes it fast with one more thing,
"We are the Sultans, we are the Sultans of Swing."
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Dire Straits Sultans Of Swing Comments
one of the best solo guitar with the comfortably numb ♥
The lead guitar is just so good, but why is no one talking about how good the bass line is
Quem não gosta não sabe o que é música.
We on down south .....London Town!
Best songs created by them
Who is here because of Jojo?
Good riding music 🎶
Down south London town
That solo tho
When ur black and u love this ish but ur mandem cant understand how deep it runs
I thank my dad for my love of music like this
Nasci na época errada, só pode..isso que é msc
Quién diciembre 19 ???
Excelente rola
Back when the drugs were clean and the sex was dirty
these lyrics somehow made me want to listen to dethklok at the end.
If you listen closely , very closely, at 0:00 you can actually hear the song begin.
you're all welcome, thanks
This is the epitome of "Dad music"
*good music*
And thus, my aural love affair with Mark Knopfler begins, so many of my friends disliked it, guessing I was the cool one after all!
Такая муз мнне нраеится всю жизнь .
Coloca na velocidade 2x kkk muito bom
Nasci na época errado. Amo essa música
Brilliant sounds thanks for tha music 👍
Os sultões do suíngue
Rest in peace Dire. At your died in a cool way.
He really takes off at 4:57 and by 5:17 im in tears. What happened to music?? ( by the way, I hate it when radio stations cut off this beautiful solo at the end as they sometimes do)
Estou completamente apaixonado, por ti...
so sick
Eu tenho 18 anos e amooooo esses tipos de miau🖤
Reminds me of my cousins salon back in the mid 90's
Perfeita essa música!
Dezembro 2019 ❤️💪😎
I know you are here only for the guitar at 5:17
Clássico relíquia viver é recorda
Not short of fantastic.
Mark knopher is one of the most incredible guitarist alive.
Thanks, dad.
reminds me of the good days before the world ended
Wow, yes. I think the world actually ended in 2001, and we are just experiencing a nightmare now.
shut the fuck up boomer
amazing tune and album
Timeless and eternal
🇧🇷🎶😎🎧 ontem hoje amanhã e sempre 🎶 dezembro de 2019!!!!!!
Tmj rock e Vida
kkkk eae filhão só no compiuter? então escuta essa aqui q é da época do pai 😎
Dezembro 2019 curtindo essa obra prima do Rock!!!!!!!
É noiss
Eu tb ouço desde criança essa música meu pai tinha o disco
16/12/2019
E eu aqui com 16 anos curtindo essa obra de arte
Agora si emtendo
Bon Oeuf
Evergreen!
By far one of my favs💕💕💕
Saia dessa paranoia de dizer que tenho outra
To aqui por causa do Pânico na rádio kkk
5:18 😍😍
Come prima, più di prima! Primo Verso
I want to see musicians today try this on a guitar lol
@smoke buddha47 i think mainstream music today as a whole doesn't have any soul in it, but there is still good stuff that isn't too known but it will have its spot soon
@smoke buddha47 ok boomer
@Sara Moutiq lmao I'm 22 and boomers don't even know how to work the internet 😂 good try millennial😉
They can copy but they cant replicate in this time
Pour mon cousin Pascal que j 'aimerai toujours !!! Tu me manques !
Remind me being a holiday in Tenerife x
one of the best songs ever. now we have ariana grande and bieber. Different times, different mentalities. -.-
Cardi B makes better music
See y'all in two months or so
Mmm...tru brother
Just turn it up need to compensate the volume by the distance
Os malokaaaa
One of the best song i have heard plus the instruments awesome... Awesome... God bless
Every dive bar and tavern that still has cedar paneling on the walls with clear tape on the vinyl seats that sells a bangin $5 Tuesday Burger Basket and warm beer.
GOOD SONG
Long live boomer music.
Me dicen el duende alegre
Magnificent! If you don't love this you don't know great music. Thank you for so many years of enjoyment. DIRE STRAIGHTS YOU ROCK
I'm 28 and this is one of the best songs I've ever listened too.. Not sure why people insist on putting their age in the comments.
15 year old listener here
I want a charging cord hooked up to an iPod and buried with me when I die so I can listen to music like this and rest peacefully 😌💯
Uh, funny
OMG my childhood memories brought me here listening to this gem on the radio back in the 70s . GREAT TIMES !
ist und bleibt einfach richtig gut !!
Du kommst aus Deutschland?
KKona now thats some damn fine music if i ever heard one
Ok guys, skin up....
just a masterpiece, nothing more
Eternity ELO...thank you!!!!
Caracas vei sempre curtir essa musica na adolescencia e somente hoje com 41 anos descobri que ela foi gravada no mes e ano que eu nasci fevereiro de 1978 , ta explicado porque eu gosto hehehe
Am I the only person in the world that thinks this is better than Stairway? I'm always happy when this song comes on the radio every time. Stairway less so.
21k people have bad taste in music,this is 🔥🔥🔥
I’m here because I inherited my parents’ gen X music taste.
Me too lol
We are the sultans
That’s dumb
Evxaristw para poli Sotiris! Thanks man!
My friends insist on playing this every time they visit and we smoke he sticky icky. I'm gonna surprise them with a turntable and a vinyl copy of this album come next time. So stoked.
Sweeeet
I am 32 years old and a I am listening in 2019
@No Dreams bas tako,ne razumem zasto,ja zaista volim ovu muziku,pored oca sam je slusala i odrasla,ja volim svoj narod ali sam razocarana.Ali ne obazirem se,pozdrav👍
@Jordan Link 👍😊
@Tamara Markovic nema potrebe, uzivaj 😎
@Mina hvala draga,takodje,pozdrav😉👍
@Tamara Markovic 😘 Pozdrav
What a fucking good song!!!!
Summer night on a Greek island in the early 00s me, my father, my mother and my sister in the car and suddenly my father puts the Dire Straits CD in the CD Player. Golden times...
veryy goooddd
les grands vrmt dire
A shame that Mark hardly makes it to most people top5 guitarists. I thought I felt every possible feeling in existence until i heard mark pleasing his strat (and yes i heard and loved comfortably numb, etc.) This is just from another universe
I love seeing young people enjoying older music. I respect young people here on YouTube stating their age. Keep it up! Music today is dead.
Another amazing song.. great guitar sounds. Phenomenal...
Nobody can ever top that guitar solo.
Eita músicão!! 🎵🎵Esse solo de guitarra é demaisss!!!🎸👏
Anyone no the name off the guitar singing this song 🎸🎶🎶
Still Listening In 2019 And 2049 And 2099
bruh u gonna be alive in 2099?
México🇲🇽 8/12/19
Muito boa essa música gosto muito 🇧🇷
Was 16 when this came out now 57 soon Aquarius
Nasanaattorin tune