TITLE = Operator
CATEGORY = Rock
Artist=Jim Croce
Speed = Text1
Beats = 4
Measures = 2
Font = 40
NOTE = ZZZZ178
G    Bm            C                    G
Operator could you help me place this call.
Am               D                    Em     D
See the number on the matchbook is old and faded.
G                 Bm           C                  G
She's living in L.A., with my best old ex-friend Ray.
Am                  D                  Em     D
A guy she said she knew well and sometimes hated.
G               C                G
Isn't that the way they say it goes.
       C          D
Let's forget all that,
     G                       Am
And give me the number if you can find it
C    D      Em
So I can call
       D               Em          C
Just to tell them I'm fine and to show,
D                      C
I've overcome the blow
                      C
Learned to take it well.
               Am                    G
I only wish my words could convince myself
                      D
That it just wasn't real.
         C                  G   Bm   C   G
But that's not the way it feels.
G    Bm             C                   G
Operator could you help me place this call.
Am                D                    Em       D
I can't read the number that you just gave me.
G                        Bm
There's something in my eyes, 
             C             G
You know it happens everytime
Am               D                    Em      D
I think about a love that I thought would save me.
G               C                G
Isn't that the way they say it goes.
       C          D
Let's forget all that,
     G                       Am
And give me the number if you can find it
C    D      Em
So I can call
       D               Em           C
Just to tell them I'm fine and to show,
D                  C
I've overcome the blow
                    C
Learned to take it well.
               Am                   G
I only wish my words could convince myself
                     D
That it just wasn't real.
        C                        G   Bm   C   G
But that's not the way it feels.
G      Bm           C              G
Operator, lets forget about this call.
Am               D                       Em       D
There's no one there I really wanted to talk to.
G                   Bm
Thank you for your time,
             C                 G
You've been so much more than kind,
Am                     D     Em   D
But you can keep the dime.
G               C                G
Isn't that the way they say it goes.
       C          D
Let's forget all that,
     G                       Am
And give me the number if you can find it
C    D      Em
So I can call
       D               Em          C
Just to tell them I'm fine and to show,
D                      C
I've overcome the blow
                      C
Learned to take it well.
               Am                    G
I only wish my words could convince myself
                      D
That it just wasn't real.
         C                   G   Bm   C   G
But that's not the way it feels.
G    Bm   C    G