By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be risin' She'll find the note I left upon her door And she'll laugh at the part that say I'm leavin' Oh, I've left that girl so many times before By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be workin' She'll probably stop for lunch and give me a call But she'll just hear that phone go right 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 real low And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her But time and time I've tried to tell her so She just didn't know I would really go