By The Time I Get To Phoenix

By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be risin'

She'll find the note that I left hangin' on her door

She'll laugh when she reads the part that says I'm leavin'

'Cause I've left that girl so many times before

By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be workin'

She'll prob'ly stop at lunch and give me a call

But she'll hear that empty 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 to think that I would really leave her

But time and time again I tried to tell her so

She didn't know that I would really go

She just didn't know

Tried, tried, tried to tell her so

(By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be sleepin')

She didn't think that I might go

(By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be sleepin')

Oh no, I tried to tell her so

(By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be sleepin')

I just tried, tried, tried

(By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be sleepin')