Operator by Grateful Dead
Key: FF | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


 F                     C     A7         Dm          C      F
e | -----------------8----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --
B | --10p(b9)10p(b9)10p(b9)------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --
G | -----------------------(b9)8-(b9)------------------10----10-12-10----------10~--------10~--------10~-------10~- | --
D | --------------------10-------10---10-11-12~-12----12-----------10-12-10---10-12-10---10-12-10---10-12-10--- | --
A | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --
E | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --
F 
Operator, can you help me?  Help me if you please
Bb                                  F                   F Gb
Give me the right area code and the number that I need
G                    C        A7       
My rider left upon a midnight flyer
Dm              C     F   
Singin' like a summer breeze
F 
Think she's somewhere down south, down about Baton Rouge
Bb                                  F                 F Gb
I just cain't remember no number, a number I can use
G                        C              A7               
Directory don't have it, central done forgot it
Dm            C         F   
Got to find a number to use
Intro
F 
Tryin' to check out a number, tryin' to run down a line
Bb                                                 F                          F Gb
Operator said that's privileged information and it ain't no business o' mine
G                                C                 A7
It's floodin' down in Texas, the poles are down in Utah
Dm            C       F
Got to find a private line
F
She could be hanging 'round a steel mill, working in a house of blue light
Bb                                     F                      F Gb
Riding a get-away bus out of Portland, talkin' to the night
G                                      C                A7
I don't know where she's gone, I don't care where she's been
Dm                 C        F
Long as she's been doin' it right
(now slap that Bb harp in your rack & blow with all yer might like so...)
Solo: (same chords as Verse)
Intro
Dm                            F
Long as she's been doing it right