Calling America Tab

Calling America
Electric Light Orchestra
from "Balance of Power"


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 (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...