Jacco van der Kemp

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Intro

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shiver in the dark, it's raining in the park, but meantime

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south of the river you stop and you hold everything

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A band is blowin' Dixie, double fourtime

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You feel allright when you hear the music ring                  Now you're

 

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stepping inside, but you don't see too many faces

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comin' out of the rain to hear the jazz go down

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Competition, too many other places

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but the horns, they're blowin' that sound

 

 

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Way down south,  way down south

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London Town

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You check out Guitar George, he knows all them fancy chords

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He's just rhythm, gonna make that guitar cry and make it sing

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This and an old guitar is just all he can afford 

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when he gets up under the coloured lights, gonna play his thing

 

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And Harry doesn't mind, if he doesn't make that fancy scene

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He's got a daytime job, he's doing quite all right, thank you very much.

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He can do the honky-tonk just like anything

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saving it up for a friday night. 

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With the Sultans, with the Sultans of swing

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And a crowd of young boys, they're just foolin' around in the corner

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drunk and dressed in their baggies and their best King's Road

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

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It ain't what they call rock and roll

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And the Sultans, yeah the Sultans, they played Creole

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And then The Man, he steps right up to the microphone

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and says, at last, just as the time-bell rings:

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" Thank you, good night, now it's time to go home". 

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And he makes it fast with one more thing

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" We are the Sultans, we are the Sultans of swing".

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