By the Time I Get to Phoenix

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 prob'ly stop at 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 And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her Though time and time I've tried to tell her So she just didn't know I would really go