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# From: chris.gaasch@co.hennepin.mn.us (Chris Gaasch) Subject: CRD: 'Calling America' by Electric Light Orchestra Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 07:41:30 -0500 Calling America Electric Light Orchestra from "Balance of Power" Transcribed by Chris Gaasch Verse:
Somebody Dtold her that there was a Aplace like heaven=20 BmAcross the water on a Gseven-fortyseven=20 DYeah, we're livingBm in a Amodern Dworld. Bm A DAnd pretty soon she's really Agot the notion=20 Of Bmflying out across the Gbig blue ocean=20 D Bm A D (D-Bm-G-A) Yeah, we're living in a modern world.
Pre-Chorus:
F#Talk is cheap on Bmsatellite=20 But Gall I get is EmstaCtic=20 F#InforBmmation, F#I'm still Bmhere=20 Re-Gdial on autoAmatic.
Chorus:=20
Calling AmDerica (can't get a meGssage through)=20 Calling AmDerica (that's what she saAid to do)=20 Calling AmDerica (that's where she haGs to be)=20 Calling AmDerica (she left a nuAmber for me)=20 Calling AmAerica.
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|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|-----------|---------|------= ---|-----------------------------------------------------------------------= B|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|-----------|---------|------= ---|-----------------------------------------------------------------------= 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...