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 hanging on her door She'll laugh when she reads the part that says I'm leaving 'Cause I've left that girl, left that girl many times before By the time I make Albuquerque, she'll be working She'll probably stop for lunch, give me a call But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringing Ringing of the wall, that's all, that's all, that's all By the time I make Oklahoma, she'll be sleeping She'll turn softly and she'll call my name out low She'll cry just to think, to think I'd really leave her Though time and time, I tried to tell her so She just didn't know I really would go