“Operator” (Take 1) [Slated] chords by
The Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead

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Key: F major
Verse 1
Ab
One. Operator. Reel three.
How about a whap -a -da -dap -a
-button -da -dun -da -dun?
Hey, wait a minute.
Fm
I can't hardly hear Jerry and the
Ab
Eb
Ab
Eb
Fm
Ab
phones.
Operator, can you help me,
Fm
help me if you please
Db
Give me the right area code
Ab
and the number that I need
Bb
Eb
My ride left on the midnight fly,
Fm
Ab
singin' like a summer breeze
I think she's somewhere down south,
down about Baton Rouge
Db
But I just can't remember a number,
Ab
Fm
a number I can use
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Bb
Directory don't have it,
Eb
Central forgot it
Fm
Gotta find a number
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Eb
Fm
Ab
to use
Tryin' to check out a number
Tryin' to run down a line
Db
Operator says that's
privilege information
Ab
And it ain't no business of mine
Bb
She's flirting down in Texas,
Eb
the poles are down in Utah,
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Ab
gotta find a private land
She could be hanging around
the steel mills,
working in a house of blue lights
Db
Running her getaway bus
out of Portland,
Ab
talking to the night
Bb
Don't know where she's going,
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Eb
Cm
don't care where she's been
Fm
Long as she's been doing it
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Db
right
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Bb
Eb
Fm
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Eb
Fm
Ab
Long as she's been doin' it right.
That sounds like the arrangement.
There was a couple of fuck -ups.
Oh yeah.
Who's the magic fuck -up?

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