Johnny Rivers - By the Time I Get to Phoenix lyrics

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