By the time I get to Phoenix he'll be rising   He'll find the note I left hangin' on his door   And he'll laugh when he reads the part that says I'm leavin'   'Cause I've left that man so many times before   By the time I make Albuquerque he'll be workin'   He'll probably stop at lunch and give me a call   But he'll just here that phone keep on ringin'   Off the wall, that's all   By the time I make Oklahoma He'll be sleepin'   He'll turn softly and call my name out low   And he'll cry just to think I'd really leave him   Though time and time I've tried to tell him so   Oh, he just didn't know   I would really go   I would really go   (Jim Webb)   Copyright 1967 Jonathan Three Music Co.