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