By the time I get to Phoenix he'll be rising

He'll find the note I left hangin' on his door

And he'll laugh when he reads the part

That says I'm leavin'

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

By the time I make Albuquerque he'll be working

He'll probably stop from lunch and give me a call

But he'll just hear that phone keep on ringin'

Off the wall that's all

By the time I make Oklahoma he'll be sleepin'

He'll turn softly and call my name out low

And he'll cry just to think I'd really leave him

Tho' time and time agian I've tried to tell him so

He just didn't know I'd really go