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F
Operator, can you help me?  Help me if you please
Bb                                  F
Give me the right area code and the number that I need
G                    C              A7
My rider left upon a midnight flyer
Dm                  C  F
Singin' like a summer breeze


F
Think she's somewhere down south, down about Baton Rouge
Bb                                  F
I just cain't remember no number, a number I can use
G                        C                     A7
Directory don't have it, central done forgot it
Dm                  C  F
Got to find a number to use

Interlude: | F / / / | C / A7 Dm | Dm / / C F | F / / / | F / / / |

(same chord progression as before)

Tryin' to check out a number, tryin' to run down a line
Operator said that's privileged information and it ain't no business o' mine
It's floodin' down in Texas, the poles are down in Utah
Got to find a private line

She could be hanging 'round a steel mill, working in a house of blue light
Riding a get-away bus out of Portland, talkin' to the night
I don't know where she's gone, I don't care where she's been
Long as she's been doin' it right

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Dm                            F
Long as she's been doing it right
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