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): 
e|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|-----------|---------|----= 
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B|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|-----------|---------|----= 
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G|-2---0-----|-----------|-----------|--------|-2---0-----|---------|----= 
---|------| 
D|--------4--|-2---4--2--|-0-2-4-----|--------|--------4--|-0---0---|-0--= 
---|------| 
A|-----------|-----------|--------2--|-2------|-----------|---------|----= 
---|------| 
E|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|-----------|---------|----= 
---|------| 
 
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... 
 
 
 
Transcribed by Chris Gaasch