By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be rising   She'll find the note I left hanging on her door   She'll laugh when she reads the part that says I'm leaving   Cause I've left that girl so many times before   By the time I reach Albuquerque she'll be working   She'll probably stop at lounch and give me a call   But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringing off the wall that's all   By the time I reach Oklahoma she'll be sleeping   She'll turn softly and call my name out low   She'll cry just to think I'd really leave her   But time and time I've tried to tell her so she just didn't know I would really go go