By The Time I Get To Phoenix

By the time I get to Phoenix he'll be risin'



He'll find the note I left hangin' on his door



And he'll laugh when he reads the part that says I'm leavin'



'Cause I've left that man so many times before



By the time I make Albuquerque he'll be workin'



He'll probably stop at lunch and give me a call



But he'll just hear that phone keep on ringin'



Off the wall, that's all



By the time I make Oklahoma he'll be sleepin'



He'll turn softly and call my name out low



And he'll cry just to think I'd really leave him



Though time and time I've tried to tell him so



Oh, he just didn't know I would really go



I would really go