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

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

'Cause I've left that boy 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 softly and call my name out low

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

Though time and time I try to tell him so

He just didn't know I would really go