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Sultans Of Swing by Dire Straits

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
A band is blowing dixie double four time
You feel alright when you hear that music ring

Well now you step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to (1)________ the (2)________ go down
Competition in other places
Ah but the horns, they blowin' that sound
Way on down south
Way on down south, London town

Check out Guitar George, he knows all the chords
Mind he's strictly rhythm, he doesn't want to make it cry or sing
Yes and an old guitar is all he can afford
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing

And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't (3)________ the scene
He's got a daytime job, he's doing alright
He can (4)________ the honky tonk (5)________ anything
Saving it up for Friday night
With the Sultans
We're the Sultans of Swing

Then a crowd of (6)__________ boys, they're fooling around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown (7)______________ and their platform soles
They don't give a damn (8)__________ any trumpet playing band
It ain't what (9)________ call rock and roll
Then the Sultans
Yeah, the Sultans they played creole
Creole

And then the man, he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings
Goodnight, now it's time to go home
Then he makes it fast with one more thing
We are the Sultans
We are the (10)______________ of Swing
Answers:
(1) hear(2) jazz(3) make(4) play(5) like(6) young(7) baggies(8) about(9) they(10) Sultans