Intro: Rem / Do Do / Rem / Do Do Fa Do

and an old guitar is all he can

Rem afford
you get a shiver in the dark Sib
Do Sib La Rem Sib Do
it's raining in the park but meantime when he gets up under the lights to
Rem Do play his thing
Sib La Rem Do Sib
south of the river you stop and you La
hold everything [and] harry doesnb't mind if he
Fa Do doesn't make the scene
a band is blowing Dixie double four Rem Do Sib
time La
Sib he['s] got a daytime job he's doing
Rem Sib Do al[l]right
you feel alright when you hear that Fa Do
music ring he can play honky tone just like
anything
Rem Do [He can play the honky tonk like
Sib La anything]
you step inside but you don't see
too many faces Sib Rem Sib
Rem Do Do
Sib La saving it up for friday night
coming in out of the rain to [you] Sib Do
hear the jazz go down with the sultans
Fa Do Rem Rem Do
too much competition in other places Sib Do
Sib with the sultans of swing
Rem Rem Do
but not too many horns can make that Sib Do
sound
[But not too many horns are blowing Rem Do
that sound] Sib La
Sib Do and a crowd of young boys they're
way on downsouth fooling around in the corner
Sib Do Rem Do
way on downsouth Sib
Rem Rem Do Sib Do drunk and dressed in their best brown
Rem Do Sib Do baggies and
London town La
their platform soles
Rem Do Fa
Sib La Do
you check out Guitar George he knows they don't give a damn about ['bout]
all the chords any trumpet playing band
Rem Do Sib Rem
Sib Sib Do
mind he's [his] strictly rhythm he it ain't what they call rock and roll
doesn't want to Sib Do
La and the sultans
make it cry or sing
 Rem Rem
Do Sib Do
and the sultans played creole
[Yeah the Sultans they played Creole]

Rem
Do Sib Do

Rem Do Sib
La
and then the man he steps right up to
the microphone
Rem Do Sib
La [La7]
and says at last just as the time
bell rings
Fa Do
thank you goodnight now it's time to
go home
Sib Rem
Sib Do
and he makes it fast with one more
thing
Sib Do
we are the sultans
Rem Rem
Do Sib Do
we are the sultans of swing