By the Time I Get To Phoenix

By the time I get to Phoenix

She'll be risin'

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 workin'

She'll probably 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, low

And she'll cry

Just to think I'd really leave her

Though, time and time, I've tried to tell her so

She just didn't know

I would really go