Guitar tab for Operator (var.3) by Grateful Dead free download and read or play online: file .txt, 3.04 kb has 136 views and 0 downloads.
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:16:02 -0500
From: Nick Bayard
Subject: g/grateful_dead/operator.tab
by the Grateful Dead, on the album, American Beauty
transcribed by Nick Bayard
Sung by Ron (pig pen) McKernan, who also played the blues harp.
someone already covered the harmonica tab, so this is the guitar part:
e)--------------------------8------------------------------
b)--10---8---10---8---10-------------------------------------
g)----------------------------8---9---8----9--------------------
d)---------------------------------------------10---10---11---12---12-
a)---------------------------------------------------------------
e)--------------------------------------------------------------
e)-----------------------------------------------------------
b)----------------------------------------------------------
g)--10---10---10---12---10--------------------10------------------
d)---------------------------10----12----10--------10---12---10---
a)-------------------------------------------------------------------
e)--------------------------------------------------------------
main riff repeated throughout song- followed by next line
e)----------------------------------------------------------------
b)-------------------------------------------------------------
g)---10----------------10-----------------------(12)------------
d)---------10----12----------10----12----10-------------------
a)----------------------------------------------------------
e)----------------------------------------------------------
(the (12) works into the riff in different ways)
e)-----------------------------------------------------------------
b)----------------------------------------------------------------
g)---12---12---10---8---9---8---9---8---9--------------------10---10---12
d)------------------------------------------10----11----12--------------
a)---------------------------------------------------------------------
e)--------------------------------------------------------------
[F] Operator, can you help me? Help me if you please
[Bb] Give me the right area code and the [F] number that I need
[G] My rider left upon a mid[C]night flyer [A7]
[Dm] Singin like a summer[C] [F] breeze
I think she^?s somewhere downsouth,
down about Baton Rouge
but I just cant remember no number,
a number, i can use,
directory dont have, central done forgot it,
got to find a number to use
trying to check out a number,
tryin to run down a line,
operator said thats priveliged information
and it aint no business of mine
its flirtin down in Texas, hose are out in Utah,
got to find a private line
she could be hangin round a steel mill,
working in a house of blue light,
ridin the getaway bus out of Portland,
talkin to the night
I dont know what shes doin,
dont care where shes been,
long as shes been doin it right
Def: F( 1 1 2 3 x x)
Bb(1 3 3 3 x x)
G(3 2 0 0 0 3)
Dm(1 3 2 0 x x)
C(0 1 0 2 3 x)