Jorma Kaukonen playing the Grateful Dead tune Operator Chords

[B] _ [Eb] _ It's on camera now.
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It's like Spinal [N] Tap.
We're on.
Oh, no, there we [Am] are. _ _
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [B] All [C] _
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right.
All right.
[D] So next year, we'll do the tribute to Bill on our own.
Yeah.
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_ _ _ _ Operators
This weekend is really, I think, about celebrating the song.
You can point to these two albums, like, very accessible, [Fm] really,
and really [F] unique vocal arrangements.
On those two albums specifically, there really isn't [Gm] any, you know,
_ [C] extended jamming.
It's just about the songs, [F] and they're all great songs.
_ American Beauty album came out. _
That's when I really connected to these guys. _
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_ Hey, man, how are you?
A pleasure.
Back at [C] you.
Yeah, man.
I understand we may actually play some music together.
How about it?
Could this be true?
Let's make it happen.
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_ _ _ Another [F] one with a long note, like a D.
Oh, huh?
Yeah.
[B] _ _ [F] That's _ _ _ the whole number.
You got it. _
I _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ think it's so cool that we're getting to do [Fm] Pigpen's number [Gm] on the American [F] Beauty.
Because his contribution, [Bb] although short, was great.
Had a whole kind of the [Ab] [Fm] blues beginnings, you [F] know, that they grew out [G] of,
you know, that they never lost.
_ [C] _ You really have to pay [D] attention to what [Gm] they were [Am] doing, you know.
And otherwise, [G] you [F] can't appreciate it.
I mean, you can appreciate it if you're wasted and just grooving on it.
But that's a different thing. _
_ [Ab] _ _ [Bb] There's so many great songs on this album.
Like this simple little song we're [Fm] doing today, Operator,
it's superficially [Dm] simple, but there's a couple [Ebm] of trick [G] things in it.
Jerry and the guys, [C] all the guys took a lot of [Dm] creative liberties with this [F] stuff.
They take a real simple, you know, very traditional sounding song and interject
a [Fm] lot of stuff that if you wanted to play it, you had to learn or you couldn't play [E] it.
Like, you know, [C] if you're doing a blues thing where [E] you do, you know,
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[C] it's a simple set of changes like that.
Well, in the turnaround, [F] they do it in an F.
And in the [C] turnaround, instead of just going C, _ [Bb] _ [F] B flat back to [Gb] F,
which would be sort of like, you know, _ _ the way everybody would do it,
they go _ from G flat to G.
_ [G] _ Then _ they go to [C] C.
_ _ And then where is this coming from?
[D] D minor.
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Back to [F] C and resolve it.
I mean, if you [Dbm] listen to it, it [C] just makes sense.
It doesn't sound like [Dm] there's weird stuff in there, but there is.
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We don't want to over-rehearse.
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[F] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ Honestly, there's a little bit of C.
The _ _ [C] kid _ _ [Db] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ [F] blowing, right?
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[G] Operator, [C] _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [F] _
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_ _ _ _ _ can you help me?
Help me if you [Fm] _ [Bb] please.
Give me the right _ area code [G] and the [Fm] number _ [F] that I need. _
[D] [G] My rider left upon [C] the midnight fly.
[D] They're singing like [C] a summer [F] _ breeze. _
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[C] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [F] _ _
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[C] _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [C] _
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Trying to check out a number. _ _
Trying to run down a line. _ _ _
[Bb] Operator says that's some privileged information and it [F] ain't no business of mine.
[G] _ It's flooding down in Texas.
[C] The poles are out in [A] Utah.
[Dm] Got to find a private [F] line. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Hang _ _ _
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[Gb] _ [G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ [D] _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ around at Steve Mills.
_ Working in a house of blue [Ab] lights.
_ _ [Bb] Riding the getaway bus out of Portland [Gm] and [F] talking to the night.
_ [G] I don't know where she's gone.
[C] I don't care where she's been.
[Dm] Long as she's been [Am] doing [F] it right. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] _ Long as she's been [F] doing it right.
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_ _ _ _ This _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ weekend's a good opportunity [Abm] for playing music you love with people you like [N] to be around.
You know, what's better than that?
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