Purpose: Don Zagier suggested a natural construction, which associates a real number and p-adic numbers for all primes p to the cusp form g = of weight 12. He claimed that these quantities constitute a rational adele. In this paper we prove this statement, and, more importantly, a similar statement when g is a weight 2 primitive form with rational integer Fourier coefficients. Methods: While a simple modular argument suffices for the proof of Zagier's original claim, consideration of the case when g is of weight 2 involves Hodge decomposition for the formal group law of the rational elliptic curve associated with g. Results and Conclusions: While in the weight 12 setting considered by Zagier the claim under consideration depends on a specific choice of a mock modular form which is good for g, in the case when g is of weight 2, the statement has a global nature, and depends on the fact that the classical addition law for the Weierstrass ζ -function is defined over Z[ 1/6].