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 lounch 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 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