By the Time I Get to Phoenix

By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising

And she'll find the note I left hangin' on her door

And she'll laugh when she reads the parts that says "I'm leavin'"

'Cause I've left that girl so many times beforeAnd by the time I make Albuquerque, she'll be working

And she'll probably stop at lunch

Lord and give me a call

But she'll just hear that phone keep right on and ringin'

Off the wall and that's allAnd by the time I make Oklahoma, she'll be sleepin'

She'll turn softly and call my name loud

Lord and she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her

Though time and time I try to tell her so, God know

Guess she just didn't know that I would really goNo, she didn't know I'd go

She didn't know I'd go