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Calling America

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     	(Somebody...) 
     	Told her that there was a place like heaven 
     	Across the water on a 747 
     	Yeah, we're living in 
     	In a modern world.

     	And pretty soon she's really got the notion 
     	Of flying out across the big blue ocean 
     	Yeah, we're living in 
     	In a modern world.

     	Talk is cheap on satellite 
     	But all I get is (static!) 
     	Information, I'm still here 
     	Re-dial on automatic.

     	CHORUS: 
     	Calling America (can't get a message through) 
     	Calling America (that's what she said to do) 
     	Calling America (that's where she has to be) 
     	Calling America (she left a number for me) 
     	Calling America.

     	But I'm just talking to a satellite 
     	Twenty thousand miles up in the sky each night 
     	Yeah, we're living in 
     	In a modern world.

     	All I had to do was pick up the phone 
     	I'm out in space, trying to talk to someone 
     	Yeah, we're living in 
     	In a modern world.

     	She left a number I could call 
     	But no one's there, no one at all 
     	There must be something going wrong 
     	That number just rings on and on.

     	REPEAT CHORUS

     	Said she'd call when she'd been gone a while 
     	Guess she's missing me across the miles 
     	Yeah, we're living in 
     	In a modern world.

     	REPEAT CHORUS

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

 - Jeff Lynne
Musical Chord: D

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From the 1986 LP - Balance of Power -

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