Operator Lyrics - American Beauty - Grateful Dead

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 

Singin' like a summer breeze 

I think she's somewhere down south 

Down about Baton Rouge 

But I just a can't remember no number 

A number I can use 

Directory don't have it 

Central done forgot it 

Gotta find a number to use. 

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 been doin' it right