By the Time I Get to Phoenix

[Verse 1]
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

[Verse 2]
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 telephone keep on ringin'
Off the wall that's all

[Verse 3]
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
'Cause time and time I tried to tell her so

[Outro]
She just didn't know I would really go