Marty Robbins — By the Time I Get to Phoenix lyrics

Lyrics

By the time I get to Phoenix, she’ll be rising
She’ll find the note I left upon her door
And she’ll laugh at word that says, I’m leaving
Oh, I’ve left that girl so many times before
By the time I make Albuquerque, she’ll be working
She’ll probably stop for lunch and give me a call
But she’ll just hear that phone go right a ringing
Off the wall that’s all
By the time I make Oklahoma, she’ll be sleeping
She’ll turn softly and call my name out low
And she’ll cry just to think I’d really leave her
'Cause time and time I’ve tried to tell her so She just didn’t know I would really go