By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be rising    She'll find the note I left hangin' on her door    She'll laugh when she reads the part that says I'm leavin'    'Cause I've left that girl so many times before       By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be working    She'll prob'ly stop at lunch and give me a call    But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringin'    Off the wall that's all       By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleepin'    She'll turn softly and call my name out loud    And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her    Tho' time and time I try to tell her so    She just didn't know I would really go.