Tom T. Hall - Tulsa Telephone Book lyrics

Have you read any good
Telephone books lately?
If you ain't then let me recommend one
I've already read that Tulsa telephone
Book through thirteen times
If you don't know any last
Names it ain't much fun

Readin' that Tulsa telephone book
Can drive a guy insane
Especially if that girl you're lookin'
For has no last name
I gotta find her and tell her
I don't want our love to end
So I'm readin' that Tulsa
Telephone book again

Well, I was in Tulsa and
Didn't have anything goin'
She lived in Tulsa and
Didn't have anything on


She said, "My name is Shirley" and I said
"My name is T"
I woke up the next mornin' and she was gone
All of the Tulsa operators know my voice now
And they gotta know how long I've been alone
If you meet a girl named Shirley
With some ribbons in her hair
Would you tell her that she's
Wanted on the phone

I'm readin' that Tulsa telephone book again