Edit 1d for headphones, March 2015. A January 31, 1978 live performance in "The Old Grey Whistle Test", a British television music show on BBC2 that ran from 1971 to 1988.*
The song is shorter, a verse was left out to have the performance f…
Edit 1d for headphones, March 2015. A January 31, 1978 live performance in "The Old Grey Whistle Test", a British television music show on BBC2 that ran from 1971 to 1988.*
The song is shorter, a verse was left out to have the performance fit in the program.
* About the name of this show: in the musical industry many years ago a first pressing of a record was played to people they called the old greys-doormen in grey suits; the songs they could remember and whistle, having heard it just once or twice, had passed the old grey whistle test.
This backward attitude still exists widely in England: a so called British king - who in real is a descendant of the German family Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha that changed their German name to "Windsor" after World War I - is sort of idolized in that "King"dom. In real it is just a billions of British pounds consuming (= wasting) puppet show, with no meaning at all but nostalia... just a reminder of something that used to be but no longer exists... What DOES exist is rows of ambulances in front of hospitals, waiting to deliver their patients. Patients that sometimes die in the ambulance because the row is too long. True story from an ambulance chauffeur...
SULTANS OF SWING
(Mark Knopfler)
you get a shiver in the dark, it's rainin' 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 the music ring
and now you step inside but you don't see too many faces
comin' in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
competition in other places, but the horns, they're blowing that sound
way on down south, way on down south in London town
you check out Guitar George he knows all the chords
but it's strictly rhythm he doesn't wanna make it cry or sing
it's 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 make the scene
he's got a daytime job, he's doin' alright
he can play the honky tonk like anything, savin' it up for Friday night
with the Sultans... with the Sultans of Swing
x this verse was omitted in this live BBC show:
x and a crowd of young boys, they're foolin' around in the corner
x drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles
x they don't give a damn about any trumpet playin' band, it ain't what they call rock and roll
x and the Sultans... yeah the Sultans 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!"
and he makes it fast with one more thing: "We are the Sultans... we are the Sultans of Swing."
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