Intro : 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 a midnight flyer Singin'like a summer breeze I think she's somewhere down south, down about Baton Rouge 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 Instrumental : Tryin'to check out a number, tryin'to run down a line Operator said that's privileged information And it ain't no business o'mine It's floodin'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 get-away bus out of Portland, talkin'to the night I don't know where she's gone, I don't care where she's been Long as she's been doin'it right Instrumental : Long as she's been doin'it right