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