[Live Performance @ "An Evening With Mark Knopfler" Prince's Trust Hurlingham Club - London, UK - September 9th 2009]<br /><br />Lyrics:<br /><br />You get a shiver in the dark<br />It's a raining in the park but meantime-<br />South of the river you stop and you hold everything<br />A band is blowing Dixie, double four time<br />You feel alright when you hear the music ring<br />Well now you step inside but you don't see too many faces<br />Coming in out of the rain they hear the jazz go down<br />Competition in other places<br />Uh but the horns they blowin' that sound<br />Way on down south<br />Way on down south<br />London town<br />You check out guitar George, he knows-all the chords<br />Mind, it's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing<br />They said an old guitar is all, he can afford<br />When he gets up under the lights to play his thing<br />And Harry doesn't mind, if he doesn't, make the scene<br />He's got a daytime job, he's doing alright<br />He can play the Honky Tonk like anything<br />Savin' it up, for Friday night<br />With the Sultans<br />We're the Sultans of Swing<br />Then a crowd a young boys they're a foolin' around in the corner<br />Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles<br />They don't give a damn about any trumpet playin' band<br />It ain't what they call Rock and Roll<br />And the Sultans<br />Yeah, the Sultans, they play Creole<br />Creole<br />And then the man he steps right up to the microphone<br />And says at last just as the time bell rings<br />"Goodnight, now it's time to go home"<br />Then he makes it fast with one more thing<br />"We are the Sultans<br />We are the Sultans of Swing"<br /><br />Songwriter(s): Knopfler, Mark.
