By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising And she'll find the note I left hangin' on her door And she'll laugh when she reads the parts that says "I'm leavin'" 'Cause I've left that girl so many times before And by the time I make Albuquerque, she'll be working And she'll probably stop at lunch Lord and give me a call But she'll just hear that phone keep right on and ringin' Off the wall and that's all And by the time I make Oklahoma, she'll be sleepin' She'll turn softly and call my name loud Lord and she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her Though time and time I try to tell her so, God know Guess she just didn't know that I would really go No, she didn't know I'd go She didn't know I'd go
