By the Time I Get to Phoenix

By the time I get to Phoenix, he'll be rising He'll find the note I left hangin' on his door 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 prob'ly 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 and softly call my name out low Might even cry, just to think I'd really leave Though time an' time I tried to tell him so He just didn't know that I would really go