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