By the time I get to Phoenix, she´ll be rising
And she´ll find that note that I left hanging on the door
And she´ll laugh when she reads the part
That says: "I´m leaving"
Cause I´ve left that girl so many times before

And by the time I get to Albuquerque, she´ll be working
And she´ll take off time just to give me a call
And she´ll hear that phone keep right on ringing and ringing
On the wall, yeah oh, that´s all

And by the time I make Oklahoma, she´ll be sleeping
She´ll turn softly in her sleep and call my name out low
And then she´ll cry just to think
That I´d really leave her, I left her
But time after time after time I tried to tell her so
But she just didn´t know That I would really go
That I would really go