Standard (EADGBE)

Verse

 Somebody told her that there was a place like heaven=20

Across the water on a seven-fortyseven=20

Yeah, we're living in a modern world.

And pretty soon she's really got the notion=20

 Of flying out across the big blue ocean=20

(---A)

Yeah, we're living in a modern world.

Pre-chorus

Talk is cheap on satellite=20

 But all I get is static=20

Information, I'm still here=20

 Re-dial on automatic.

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.

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

(-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

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...