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Operator - Jim Croce - 35 bpm
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Oper
F#m
ator, oh could you
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help me place this
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call
Em
You see the number on the
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matchbook is old and
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faded
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She's livin' in L.
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A. with my
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best old ex-friend
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Ray
Em
A guy she said she
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knew well and sometimes
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hated
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Ain't that the
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way they say it
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goes, but let's
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forget all
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that
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And give me the number if
Em
you can find it, so
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I can call just to
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tell them I'm fine
And to
Em
show,
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I've overcome the
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blow, learned to take it
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well. I only wish
my
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words could convince my
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self that it just wasn't
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real, but
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that's not the way it
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Oper
F#m
ator, oh could you
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help me place this
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call
Em
'Cause I can't read the
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number that you just
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gave me
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There's something in my
F#m
eye's, you know it
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happens every
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time
Em
I think about the
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love that I thought would
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save me
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Oper
F#m
ator oh let's for
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get about this
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call
Em
There's no one
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there I really wanted to
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talk to
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Thank you for your
F#m
time, oh you've been so
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much more than
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kind
Em
And you can keep the
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dime
Bm -
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