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