By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be risin
She'll find the note I left hangin on her door
She'll laugh when she reads the part that say I'm leaving
Cause I've left that girl so many times before
By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be workin
She'll probably 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 low
And 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
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By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be workin
She'll probably 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 low
And 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.