Transcribed by Chris Gaasch

Verse:
DSomebody told her that theAre was a place 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
BmOf flying out across tGhe big blue ocean=20
DYeah, we're livingBm in a Amodern Dwo[(D-Bm-G-A)]rld.      

Pre-Chorus:
F#Talk is cheap on Bmsatellite=20
GBut all I getEm isC static=20
F#InforBmmation, F#I'm still Bmhere=20
GRe-dial on aAutomatic.

Chorus:=20
DCalling America (can'Gt get a message through)=20
DCalling America (that's wAhat she said to do)=20
DCalling America (that's whGere she has to be)=20
DCalling America (sheA left a number for me)=20
ACalling 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
DYeah, we're livingBm in a Amodern Dworl[(D-C#m)]d.     

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...