Operator
The Grateful Dead 

F C Dm F
        F                                                                      F7
          Operator, can you help me, help me if you please
          Bb                                                         F                              (F#)
          Give me the right area code and the number that I need
          G                                   C                     Dm                               F
          My rider left upon the midnight flyer singin' 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
             - I've gotta find a number to use
                                                                     F C Dm F

          Trying to check out her number, trying to run down her line
          Operator said that's priv'ledged information - and it ain't no business of mine
          It's floodin' down in Texas, poles are out in Utah - gotta find a private line

          She could be hangin' round the steel mill - working in a house of blue lights
          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 doin' it right
                      *Solo*    (verse)

  F C Dm                              F
          Long as she's doin' it right...
      


  Copyright 1970 Ice Nine Publishing, Inc.
  By Ron McKernan (Pigpen)
  American Beauty





                    Chords:
                           F  C  Dm Bb G (F#)
                       e |-1--0--1-----3-----
                       B |-1--1--3--3--0-----
                       G |-2--0--2--3--0-----
                       D |-3--2--0--3--0-----
                       A |-3--3--0--1--2-----
                       E |-1-----------3--2--

   Intro/Outro:
          F            C              Dm         F
      e |-5p4-5p4-5-8-------------------------------------------
      B |(6)-------------5-4-5-----------6---6-8-6------6-------
      G |(5)-----------5-------5--5-6-77---7------5-7-5--5-7-5--
      D |-------------------------------------------------------
      A |-------------------------------------------------------
      E |-------------------------------------------------------

    p = pull-off







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