By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be rising She'll find the note I left upon her door And she'll laugh at word that says I'm leaving Oh I've left that girl so many times before By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be working She'll probably stop for lounch and give me a call But she'll just hear that phone go right a ringing Off the wall that's all By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleeping 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've tried to tell her so She just didn't know I would really go