By the Time I Get to Phoenix

(Jim Webb)



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 so many times before.



By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be working

She'll probably stop for lunch and give me a call

But she'll just hear that phone keep on 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

She'll cry just to think I'd really leave her

Though time and time I tried to tell her so.



She just did'nt know I would really go...