Dead Songs in Depth
Topic 157: Operator
Operator
w&m: McKernan
AGDL: http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/operator.html
LASF: http://www.whitegum.com/songfile/OPERATOR.HTM
Operator
Lyrics: Ron McKernan
Music: Ron McKernan
Copyright Ice Nine Publishing; used by permission.
Operator, can you help me
Help me if you please
Give me the right area code
And the number that I need
My rider left upon the midnight flyer
Singing 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
Directory don't have it, Central done forgot it
Got to find a number to use
Trying to check out her number
Trying to run down her line
Operator said that's privileged information
And it ain't no business of mine
It's flooding 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 getaway bus out of Portland
Talking to the night
I don't know where she's going, I don't care where she's been
Long as she's been doing it right
Long as she's been doing it right
This link
<https://www.facebook.com/groups/1559369524351383/permalink/2679432945678363/> has two versions of handwritten lyrics with some variations (mostly minor but more substantial in the last verse.
Great song.
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