By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be risin'
She'll find the note 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 oh too many time before

By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be workin'
She'll prob'ly stop at lunch, she'll try to give me a call
She'll just hear that phone keep on ringin'
Off the wall, that is all

By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleepin'
She'll turn softly and she will, she'll call my name out low
Oh, and she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her
'Though time and time again, you know, I've tried to tell her so
She just didn't know
I would really go
I tried to tell her so