Sultans of Swing (Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, 1983) [2023 Remaster]

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

Come on, 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