Verse:
D ASomebody told her that there was a place like heaven=20
Across the water on a seven-fortyseven=20
D Bm A D Bm AYeah, we're living in a modern world.
D AAnd pretty soon she's really got the notion=20
Of flying out across the big blue ocean=20
D Bm A D (D-Bm-G-A)Yeah, we're living in a modern world.
Pre-Chorus:
Talk is cheap on satellite=20
G Em CBut all I get is static=20
F# Bm F# BmInformation, I'm still here=20
Re-dial on automatic.
Chorus:=20
D GCalling America (can't get a message through)=20
Calling America (that's what she said to do)=20
D GCalling America (that's where she has to be)=20
D ACalling America (she left a number for me)=20
Calling America.
Verse:
But I'm just talking to a satellite=20
Twenty thousand miles up in the sky each night=20
Yeah, we're living in a modern world.
All I had to do was pick up the phone=20
I'm out in space, trying to talk to someone=20
Yeah, we're living in a modern world.
Pre-Chorus:
She left a number I could call=20
But no one's there, no one at all=20
There must be something going wrong=20
That number just rings on and on.
Chorus:=20
Calling America (can't get a message through)=20
Calling America (that's what she said to do)=20
Calling America (that's where she has to be)=20
Calling America (she left a number for me)=20
Calling America.
Solo (over verse chords):
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B|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|-----------|---------|------=
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G|-2---0-----|-----------|-----------|--------|-2---0-----|---------|------=
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D|--------4--|-2---4--2--|-0-2-4-----|--------|--------4--|-0---0---|-0----=
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A|-----------|-----------|--------2--|-2------|-----------|---------|------=
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E|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|-----------|---------|------=
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Verse:
Said she'd call when she'd been gone a while=20
Guess she's missing me across the miles=20
Yeah, we're living in a modern world.
Chorus:=20
Calling America (can't get a message through)=20
Calling America (that's what she said to do)=20
Calling America (that's where she has to be)=20
Calling America (she left a number for me)=20
Calling America.
Calling America, Calling America=20
Calling America, Calling America...
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