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