Electric Light Orchestra - Calling America

      Calling America
Electric Light Orchestra
from "Balance of Power"

Transcribed by Chris Gaasch


[Verse]
         D                         A
Somebody told her that there was a place like heaven
Bm                    G
Across the water on a seven-fortyseven
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
   Bm                    G
Of flying out across the big blue ocean
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
    G            Em C
But all I get is static
F#   Bm      F#        Bm
Information, I'm still here
   G           A
Re-dial on automatic.

[Chorus]
                D                    G
      Calling America (can't get a message through)
                D                        A
      Calling America (that's what she said to do)
                D                         G
      Calling America (that's where she has to be)
                D                   A
      Calling America (she left a number for me)
                A
      Calling America.

[Verse]
         D                         A
But I'm just talking to a satellite
Bm                    G
Twenty thousand miles up in the sky each night
D                 Bm    A      D        Bm  A
Yeah, we're living in a modern world.
D                            A
All I had to do was pick up the phone
   Bm                    G
I'm out in space, trying to talk to someone
D                 Bm    A      D   (D C#m)
Yeah, we're living in a modern world.

[Pre-Chorus]
F#               Bm
She left a number I could call
    G            Em C
But no one's there, no one at all
F#   Bm      F#        Bm
There must be something going wrong
   G           A
That number just rings on and on.

[Chorus]
              D                    G
      Calling America (can't get a message through)
                D                        A
      Calling America (that's what she said to do)
                D                         G
      Calling America (that's where she has to be)
                D                   A
      Calling America (she left a number for me)
                A
      Calling America.

[Solo] (over verse chords)
e|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|-----------|---------|---------|
B|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|-----------|---------|---------|
G|-2---0-----|-----------|-----------|--------|-2---0-----|---------|---------|
D|--------4--|-2---4--2--|-0-2-4-----|--------|--------4--|-0---0---|-0-------|
A|-----------|-----------|--------2--|-2------|-----------|---------|---------|
E|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|-----------|---------|---------|

[Verse]
         D                         A
Said she'd call when she'd been gone a while
Bm                    G
Guess she's missing me across the miles
D                 Bm    A      D        Bm  A
Yeah, we're living in a modern world.

[Chorus]
               D                    G
      Calling America (can't get a message through)
                D                        A
      Calling America (that's what she said to do)
                D                         G
      Calling America (that's where she has to be)
                D                   A
      Calling America (she left a number for me)
                A
      Calling America.

      Calling America, Calling America
      Calling America, Calling America...