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