Sultans of Swing

The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember. - Thoreau

windows down

tires rollin'

breeze blowin'

radio crankin'

offkey, youthful voices beltin' it out

i remember the sizzlin', summer days

headin' for the coast

beach towels wrapped 'round our spirited heads

ruling everything

as if we were sultans of swing

Author's Note

"Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly." - Thoreau

Reviews

[GlendaK]

We felt rich, though, right? We felt invincible and indestructible!

Rolled (rolled?) down the windows, singing to the tops of our lungs!

Get to the beach and spend our last dime as if we are rich...Then return sunburned and broke. Great times!

[Pete]

so true what you say. we were rich - with youthful life along along with none of the burdens and pressures of adulthood - a time when all we worried about was what to wear and what song.

[GlendaK]

yes...............

[GlendaK]

Dire Straits...Great pick! Thanks Pete.

[Samuel Dickens]

I can dig it. Oh, to be young and free again. Did we know how good we had it? Don't know about you, but I'd pay good money to lavishly spend a bit of that kind of time again.

[Pete]

don't you know it. we accumulate all this stiff and it ends up owning us. i think my muse thoreau said it well, "The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." thanks sd.

[Thomas W Case]

Great work. I love the Dire Straits

[Pete]

music - the universal language. thanks twc.

[Joli Dy]

Yes, brother! Right there with you!

[Pete]

guess it's not just me. thank you jd - keep rockin'.

[Kelly Scheppers]

Those sunny hours and summer days were spent lavishly...and how we wished they would never end. Dire Straits may have sung it, but we were the sultans of swing!

[Pete]

indeed. we may not have realized it at the time but being young and having such music made everything our oyster. happy thanksgiving Kelly.

[Kelly Scheppers]

So true, Pete! And we had the very best bands back then, didn't we?

[Pete]

I think so and still listen to it. I think it becomes a part of us.

[GlendaK]

;-)

........Great piece!

[Pete]

thanks gk. happy thanksgiving.

[GlendaK]

and you Pete

[Chris Shaw]

Love Dire Straits Pete. Particularly Sultans of Swing. Love your snapshot memory here. So joyful. Takes me back a few years for sure. Happy Thanksgiving Day for tomorrow.

Chris

[Pete]

well you certainly have good taste. i've always liked them with that knopfler. to this day, if i'm in a store and that song is playing it brings a smile. how could anyone not be happy listening to it? happy thanksgiving chris for sure. thank you and same to you.