By the Time I Get to Phoenix

By the time I get to Phoenix

She'll be rising

She'll find the note

I left hangin' on her door

She'll laugh when she reads the part

That says I'm leavin'

'Cause I've left that girl

So many times before

By the time I make Albuquerque

She'll be working

She'll prob'ly stop at lunch

And give me a call

But she'll just hear

That phone keep on ringin'

Off the wall that's all

By the time I make Oklahoma

She'll be sleepin'

She'll turn softly

And call my name out loud

And she'll cry

Just to think I'd really leave her

Tho' time and time

I try to tell her so

She didn't know that I would really go

She just didn't know