By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising
She'll find my note I left it hangin' on a 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 working
She'll probably stop at lunch and give me a call
But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringin'
Ringing on 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 gone
Tho' time and time I tried to tell her so

The girl just didn't know
I would really go
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