By the time
I get to Phoenix
she'll be rising...
She'll find my 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
Alberquerque
she'll be working
She'll probably
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'd 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........