By the time I get to Phoenix
She'll be risin'
She'll find the note I done left
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 probably stop at lunch
Give me a call
Oh, but she'll just hear that phone
Keep on ringin'
Jumpin' off the wall
That's all
That's all
Oh, by the time I make Oklahoma
She'll be sleepin'
Yeah, she's gonna turn softly
And call my name out low
Oh, she'll cry just to think
I'd really leave her
Oh, when time, time and time again
I've tried to tell her so
She just didn't know
I would really go
She just didn't know
I would say goodbye
Bye-bye