Lyrics Roger Miller

Roger Miller

By The Time I Get To Phoenix

By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be risin'

She'll find the note I left hangin' on her door

She'll laugh when she reads the part that says I'm leavin'

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

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

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

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

Off the wall, that's all

By the time I make Oklahoma, she'll be sleepin'

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