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

I've gotta find a number to use

Trying to check out her number

Trying to run down her line

Operator said that's privileged information

And it ain't no business of mine

It's flooding down in Texas, the poles are out in Utah

Got to find a private line

She could be hanging 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 doing it right

Long as she's been doing it right