Calling America

Verse: 
(D) (A) 
Somebody told her that there was a place like heaven=20 
(Bm) (G) 
Across the water on a seven-fortyseven=20 
(D) (Bm) (A) (D) (Bm) (A) 
Yeah, we‘re living in a modern world. 
(D) (A) 
And pretty soon she‘s really got the notion=20 
(Bm) (G) 
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: 
(F#) (Bm) 
Talk is cheap on satellite=20 
(G) (Em) (C) 
But all I get is static=20 
(F#) (Bm) (F#) (Bm) 
Information, I‘m still here=20 
(G) (A) 
Re-dial on automatic. 
 
Chorus:=20 
(D) (G) 
Calling America (can‘t get a message through)=20 
(D) (A) 
Calling America (that‘s what she said to do)=20 
(D) (G) 
Calling America (that‘s where she has to be)=20 
(D) (A) 
Calling America (she left a number for me)=20 
(A) 
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 
(D) (Bm) (A) (D) (D-(C)#m) 
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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(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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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...