Sultans Of Swing

作曲 : Mark Knopfler

作词 : Mark Knopfler

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

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 down south way on down south 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 now

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 and the Sultans played Creole

Creole

And 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"

译者注：歌词中的George和Harry，George Young是AC/DC乐队 Angus Young's的哥哥，

和Harry Vanda一起同为Easybeats乐队成员，两人还曾经帮助AC/DC作品的录制。

Dixie即dixie standrads，是一种特点是强调反拍和快速律动的南部风格，标准迪克西风格的小号大师Louis Armstrong路易斯·阿姆斯特朗，

Honky tonk大体上是指在早年盛行于酒吧间的一种美国南部乡村音乐

Creole是一支乐队—King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band，

金·奥利弗的克里特爵士乐团。路易斯·阿姆斯特朗恰恰就是这支乐团的成员，

而乐团灵魂金·奥利弗正是阿姆斯特朗的老师。）