Sultans Of Swing Dire Straits Translation Meaning and Lyrics

Song Meaning

'Sultans Of Swing' means 'Sultans Of Swing' in English. It is a name of a song by 'Dire Straits' human translated here by a native speaker.

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Original Lyrics: You get a shiver in the dark

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Original Lyrics: It's a raining in the park but meantime-

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Original Lyrics: South of the river you stop and you hold everything

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Original Lyrics: A band is blowing Dixie, double four time

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Original Lyrics: You feel alright when you hear the music ring

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Original Lyrics: Well now you step inside but you don't see too many faces

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Original Lyrics: Coming in out of the rain they hear the jazz go down

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Original Lyrics: Competition in other places

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Line 9
Original Lyrics: Uh but the horns they blowin' that sound

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Original Lyrics: Way on down south

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Original Lyrics: Way on down south

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Original Lyrics: London town

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Original Lyrics: You check out guitar George, he knows-all the chords

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Original Lyrics: Mind, it's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing

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Original Lyrics: They said an old guitar is all, he can afford

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Original Lyrics: When he gets up under the lights to play his thing

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Original Lyrics: And Harry doesn't mind, if he doesn't, make the scene

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Original Lyrics: He's got a daytime job, he's doing alright

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Original Lyrics: He can play the Honky Tonk like anything

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Original Lyrics: Savin' it up, for Friday night

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Original Lyrics: With the Sultans

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Original Lyrics: We're the Sultans of Swing

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Original Lyrics: Then a crowd a young boys they're a foolin' around in the corner

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Original Lyrics: Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles

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Original Lyrics: They don't give a damn about any trumpet playin' band

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Original Lyrics: It ain't what they call Rock and Roll

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Original Lyrics: And the Sultans

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Original Lyrics: Yeah, the Sultans, they play Creole

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Original Lyrics: Creole

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Original Lyrics: And then the man he steps right up to the microphone

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Original Lyrics: And says at last just as the time bell rings

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Original Lyrics: "Goodnight, now it's time to go home"

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Original Lyrics: Then he makes it fast with one more thing

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Original Lyrics: "We are the Sultans

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Original Lyrics: We are the Sultans of Swing"

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Review

Classic Dire Straits song from the 1980s.  It was inspired by a real band called the Sultans of Swing that Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits saw in a grimy pub in Deptford south-east London 

Submitted by user: BENDECKO

Average Ratings

Most people find the song lyrics very easy to understand lyrics, lyrics sung very slowly and it has hard to remember verbs and nouns

Sultans Of Swing has 99 BPM (beats per minute)

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