Operator
Details
- Band
- The Grateful Dead
- Play count
- 4
- First played
- 1970-08-18 — Fillmore West
Lyrics
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
The 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
Long as she's been doin' it right
Links
Performances
| Date | Venue | Location | Set | # | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-11-08 | Capitol Theatre | Port Chester, New York | Set 1: | 6 | |
| 1970-11-07 | Capitol Theatre | Port Chester, New York | Set 1: Acoustic | 3 | |
| 1970-09-18 | Fillmore East | New York | Set 2 | 10 | |
| 1970-08-18 | Fillmore West | San Francisco, California | Set 1 | 6 |
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