Dire Straits - Private Investigations

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Artist: Dire Straits
Title: Private Investigations
Category: 70s & 80s Music
Decade: 80s
Year: 1982
Chart Entry: 13
Peak Position: 2
Weeks in Chart: 7

Song info respective to 29th August 1982

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You get a shiver in the dark
It's been 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 all right when you hear that music ring

You step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Too much competition too many other places
But not too many horns can make that sound
Way on downsouth way on downsouth London Town

You check out Guitar George
He knows all the chords, mind he's strictly rhythm
He doesn't want to make it cry or sing
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 make the scene
He's got a daytime job he's doing alright
He can play honky tonk just like anything
Saving it up for Friday night
With the Sultans, with the Sultans of swing

And a crowd of young boys
They're fooling around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies
And their platform soles, they don't give a damn
About any trumpet playing band
It ain't what they call rock and roll
And the Sultans played Creole

And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings
Thank you goodnight now it's time to go home
And he makes it fast with one more thing
We are the Sultans of swing

Dire Straits - Private Investigations

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