Kind of a catchy song from 1950s honky-tonk. By coincidence I was talking with my wife yesterday on a walk about how she, her first time away from home in the 1980s, had no ability to call long-distance to reach home. My father having been a professional telephone man (and volunteer fire-fighter), I explained that all she had to do was go to any payphone -- remember payphones? -- and press "0," then explain what she wanted to a helpful operator. No one had ever explained that to her, so she was just unable to use the phone service when away from home for her several years at college.
Not much help now, that explanation! In those days, we employed banks of operators full-time whose job it was to help you navigate that problem. Now a long-distance call isn't even expensive on most phone plans. Overseas ones still can be.
Always wondered where that song came from. Here is a version I am familiar with- Graham Parsons and Emmylou Harris. I think it is James Burton on lead guitar.
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