By the time I get to Phoenix, he'll be rising   He'll find the note I left hangin' on his door   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 prob'ly stop at lunch and give me a call   But he'll just hear that phone keep on ringin'   Off the wall, that's all      By the time I make Oklahoma, he'll be sleepin'   He'll turn and softly call my name out low   Might even cry, just to think I'd really leave   Though time an' time I tried to tell him so   He just didn't know that I would really go