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 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.
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. Long as she`s doin` it right