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Calling America
Electric Light Orchestra
from "Balance of Power"

Transcribed by Chris Gaasch

Verse:
DD Piano Chord 
                         AA Piano Chord 

Somebody told her that there was a place like heaven=20
BmBm Piano Chord 
                    GG Piano Chord 

Across the water on a seven-fortyseven=20
DD Piano Chord 
                 BmBm Piano Chord 
    AA Piano Chord 
      DD Piano Chord 
        BmBm Piano Chord 
  AA Piano Chord 

Yeah, we're living in a modern world.
DD Piano Chord 
                            AA Piano Chord 

And pretty soon she's really got the notion=20
BmBm Piano Chord 
                    GG Piano Chord 

Of flying out across the big blue ocean=20
DD Piano Chord 
                 BmBm Piano Chord 
    AA Piano Chord 
      DD Piano Chord 
 (DD Piano Chord 
-BmBm Piano Chord 
-G-AA Piano Chord 
)
Yeah, we're living in a modern world.

Pre-Chorus:
F#F# Piano Chord 
               BmBm Piano Chord 

Talk is cheap on satellite=20
GG Piano Chord 
            EmEm Piano Chord 
 CC Piano Chord 

But all I get is static=20
F#F# Piano Chord 
   BmBm Piano Chord 
      F#F# Piano Chord 
        BmBm Piano Chord 

Information, I'm still here=20
GG Piano Chord 
           AA Piano Chord 

Re-dial on automatic.

Chorus:=20
DD Piano Chord 
                    GG Piano Chord 

Calling America (can't get a message through)=20
DD Piano Chord 
                        AA Piano Chord 

Calling America (that's what she said to do)=20
DD Piano Chord 
                         GG Piano Chord 

Calling America (that's where she has to be)=20
DD Piano Chord 
                   AA Piano Chord 

Calling America (she left a number for me)=20
AA Piano Chord 

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
DD Piano Chord 
                 BmBm Piano Chord 
    AA Piano Chord 
      DD Piano Chord 
   (DD Piano Chord 
-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-----|---------|----=
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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...