Released: June 26, 1975
Songwriter: Bob Dylan
Producer: Bob Dylan The Band
Long-distance operator
Place this call, it's not for fun
Long-distance operator
Please, place this call, you know it's not for fun
I gotta get a message to my baby
You know, she's not just anyone
There are thousands in the phone booth
Thousands at the gate
There are thousands in the phone booth
Thousands at the gate
Ev'rybody wants to make a long-distance call
But you know they're just gonna have to wait
Ev'rybody wants to be my friend
But nobody wants to get higher
Ev'rybody wants to be my friend
But nobody wants to get higher
Long-distance operator
I believe I'm stranglin' in this telephone wire
Place this call, it's not for fun
Long-distance operator
Please, place this call, you know it's not for fun
I gotta get a message to my baby
You know, she's not just anyone
There are thousands in the phone booth
Thousands at the gate
There are thousands in the phone booth
Thousands at the gate
Ev'rybody wants to make a long-distance call
But you know they're just gonna have to wait
Ev'rybody wants to be my friend
But nobody wants to get higher
Ev'rybody wants to be my friend
But nobody wants to get higher
Long-distance operator
I believe I'm stranglin' in this telephone wire
The Basement Tapes
- Tears of Rage
- Tiny Montgomery
- Don’t Ya Tell Henry
- Nothing Was Delivered
- Open the Door, Homer
- This Wheel’s on Fire
- Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)
- Katie’s Been Gone
- Yazoo Street Scandal
- Bessie Smith
- Long Distance Operator
- Ain’t No More Cane
- Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
- Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)
- Odds and Ends
- Million Dollar Bash
- Goin’ to Acapulco
- Lo and Behold!
- Clothes Line Saga
- Apple Suckling Tree
- Please, Mrs. Henry
- Too Much of Nothing
- Ruben Remus
- The Basement Tapes (1975)
- You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere
- This Wheel’s on Fire
- Tears of Rage
- Bessie Smith
- Long Distance Operator
- Ruben Remus
- Orange Juice Blues (Blues for Breakfast)
- Katie’s Been Gone
- Yazoo Street Scandal
- Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) [Before the Flood]
- Lay Lady Lay [Before the Flood]
- Rainy Day Women #12 and 35 [Before the Flood]
- Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door [Before the Flood]
- It Ain’t Me, Babe [Before the Flood]
- Ballad of a Thin Man [Before the Flood]
- I Shall Be Released [Before the Flood]
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right [Before the Flood]
- Just Like a Woman [Before the Flood]
- It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) [Before the Flood]
- All Along the Watchtower [Before the Flood]
- Highway 61 Revisited [Before the Flood]
- Like a Rolling Stone [Before the Flood]
- Blowin’ in the Wind [Before the Flood]
- Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood)