Sultans Of Swing Tab by Dire Straits ULTIMATE
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Tuning: E A D G B E
[Intro]
Dm
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[Verse 1]
Dm C Bb A A7
You get a shiver in the dark, It's raining in the park, but meantime
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Dm C Bb A
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
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F C
A band is blowing Dixie double four time
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Bb Dm Bb C
You feel all right when you hear that music ring
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[Verse 2]
Dm C Bb A
Well now you step inside but you don't see too many faces
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Dm C Bb A
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
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F C
Competition in other places
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Bb Dm Bb C
But the horns, they're blowing that sound
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Bb C
Way on down south
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Dm C Bb
way on down south London town
C Dm C Bb C
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G|---5-5-3---5-5----x-5--5/10-10-----9--5-5-3--5-5----x-5----------5-|
D|---7-5-3---7--7p5-x-5-----------------7-5-3--7--7p5-x-5-------5h7--|
A|---------------------------------------------------------x-5/7-----|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
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[Verse 3]
Dm C Bb A A7
You check out Guitar George, he knows all the chords
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A|-1/7-------------------------------|
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Dm C Bb A
Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing
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G|-7b9----------------------0-----------------------------|
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F C Bb
Yes, and an old guitar is all he can afford
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G|-7/9--9\7-7-7-7--------------------|
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Dm Bb C
When he gets under the lights to play his thing
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G|-9/10---9-10-10-x-3-x-3--3-3/5-5-------5-5-5/7--|
D|------------------3-x----3-3/5-5----5h7-7-7-----|
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[Verse 4]
Dm C Bb A A7
And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
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Dm C Bb A A7
He's got a daytime job he's doing alright
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F C
He can play the honky tonk like anything
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D|--5--5-x-7-7-5-x-3-----------------|
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Bb Dm Bb
Saving it up for Friday night
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D|-5/7-7--------3-3-3-3/5-5----------|
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C Bb C
With the Sultans,
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Dm
with the Sultans of Swing
Dm C Bb C Dm C Bb C
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G|---5-5-3---5-5----x-5--5/10-10--0-9--5-5-3--5-5----x-5----------5-|
D|---7-5-3---7--7p5-x-5----------------7-5-3--7--7p5-x-5-------5h7--|
A|--------------------------------------------------------x-5/7-----|
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[Verse 5]
Dm C Bb A A7
And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner
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Dm C Bb A A7
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies, and their platform soles
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F C
They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band
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Bb Dm Bb
It ain't what they call rock and roll
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C Bb
And the Sultans,
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C Dm
yeah the Sultans, they played Creole. Creole.
Dm C Bb C Creole Dm C Bb C ah ah
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D|---7-5-3---7--7p5-x-5-----------------7-5-3--7--7p5-x-5-------5h7--|
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[Instrumental]
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e|------9-12b13b14r12--10-----------------------------------------|
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A|----------------------------------------------------------------|
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G|----0--0---0-----12b14--12bh14----(14)r12-10-10-----------12-14p12---|
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B|-13-13--13b15-(15)r13--13b15-13b15r13--10---10---13b15-10---------|
G|---------------------15----------------------------------12-10\3--|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------|
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G|--3-------5-----------------3------3s5--5--7-5-7bh9-(9)r7-5-7-7\2--|
D|-3-------5-----------------3-------3s5-5---------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
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G|---5-5-3---5-5----x-5--5/10-10-----9--5-5-3--5-5----x-5----------5-|
D|---7-5-3---7--7p5-x-5-----------------7-5-3--7--7p5-x-5-------5h7--|
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[Verse 6]
Dm C Bb A
And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
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Dm C Bb A
And says at last just as the time bell rings
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F C
goodnight now it's time to go home'
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Bb Dm
Then he makes it fast with one more thing
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C Bb
'We are the Sultans,
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C Dm
we are the sultans of Swing
C Dm C Bb C
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D|---7-5-3---7--7p5-x-5-----------------7-5-3--7--7p5-x-5-------5h7--|
A|---------------------------------------------------------x-5/7-----|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
[Solo]
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e|--8--------------------10-------------------------------------------|
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A|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
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D|-------------------------------------------------------------------15\7-|
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| / Slide up
| \ Slide down
| h Hammer-on
| p Pull-off
| x Dead note
| b Bend
| r Release
| br Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend
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