Lyrics:

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 time before.



By the time I make Albuquerque she'll

be workin'. She'll prob'ly stop at

lunch 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. And she'll cry just to

think I'd really leave her,'tho' time

and time I've tried to tell her so. she

just didn't know I would really go.