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Artist: Arlo Guthrie
Canonical path: /guthrie-arlo/telephone
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Telephone
Read Telephone lyrics by Arlo Guthrie on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Telephone
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Every morning just as soon as it's light
Get out of bed and I'm feeling alright
Make me some coffee and I sit down alone
The rest of the day I'm on the telephone
CHORUS:
Hang up, hold on
You got a dime so you come on so strong
Save your money and let me be
Hang up the phone and quit bothering me
I got a phone in my bedroom and one in the barn
A phone in my car and one in the yard
A phone on my saddle for when I'm out on the range
A phone in my pocket for when I'm down at the grange
CHORUS
Now with devaluation all over the land
The whole wide world has got more money in their hand
They'll be calling me up from Peking and Nome
I'm going to rip out my telephone
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Arlo Guthrie performs "Telephone", and this lyric page sits inside the Arlo Guthrie catalog on LyroVerse.
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