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 oh too many times before

By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be workin'

She'll prob'ly stop at lunch

She'll try to give me a call

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 she will she will call my name out low

And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her

'Tho' time and time again you know

I've tried to tell her so

She just didn't know I would really go

I've tried to tell her so