Sultans Of Swing (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London / 1983 / Remastered 2023)

Yeah, 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
Common guys
Band's blowing Dixie double four time
Yeah, you feel alright when you hear that music ring
Yeah

Well, now you stepping inside
But you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Competition too many other places
Yeah, but the horns, they're blowing that sound, they're blowing

Way on down south
Oh, way on down south
London town

You check out guitar George
Well, he knows all them fancy chords
His rhythm gonna make that guitar cry and make it sing
Yes and an old guitar is just all he can afford
When he gets up under the coloured lights, he's gonna play that thing

And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make that fancy scene
Got a daytime job, he's doing quite alright, thank you very much
Do the honky-tonk just like anything
Saving it up for Friday night

With the Sultans, yeah
With the Sultans of Swing

You send a crowd of young boys, they're just fooling around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their best king's role
Don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band
'Cause it ain't what they calling rock 'n roll

The Sultans
Oh yeah, the Sultans, play Creole

Then the man he just steps right up to the microphone
He says at last just as the time bell rings
"Thank you, goodnight, now it's time to go home"
Then he makes it fast with just one more thing

We are the Sultans
Yeah, we are the Sultans of Swing