Operator

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Operator, can you help me, help me if you please?

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Give me the right area code and the number that I need

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My rider left upon the midnight flyer

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Singin' like a summer breeze

I think she's somewhere down south, down about Baton Rouge

But I just can't remember no number, a number I can use

Direct'ry don't have it, Central done forgot it

Got to find a number to use

Tryin' to check out her number, tryin' to run down her line

Operator said that's privileged information and it ain't no business of mine

It's floodin' down in Texas, the poles are out in Utah

Got to find a private line

She could be hangin' round the steel mill workin' in the house of blue lights

Ridin' a getaway bus out of Portland, talkin' to the night

I don't know where she's goin', I don't care where she's been

As long as she's been doin' it right

As long as she's been doin' it right