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   Singing 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   Got to find a number to use      Trying to check out her number   Trying to run down her line   Operator said that's priviledged information   And it ain't no business of mine   It's flooding 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 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