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 says I'm leavin' Cause I've left that nerve 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 loud And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her Oh, time and time, I've tried to tell her so She just didn't know I would really go I would really go