By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Jimmy Webb
[Verse 1]
By the time I get to Phoenix he'll be risin'
He'll find the note I left hangin' on the door
He'll laugh when he reads the part that says I'm leavin'
'Cause I've left that man so many times before
[Verse 2]
By the time I make Albuquerque he'll be workin'
He'll probably stop at lunch and give me a call
But he'll just hear that phone keep on ringin'
Off the wall
That's all
That's all
[Verse 3]
By the time I make Oklahoma he'll be sleepin'
He'll turn slowly and call my name out low
And he'll cry just to think I'd really leave him
Though time and time I tried to tell him so
He just didn't know
I would really go