By The Time I Get To Phoenix Lyrics - Roger Miller

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 so many times before 

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

She'll probably stop at lunch and give me a call 

But she'll just hear that 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 just to think I'd really leave her 

Though time and time I've tried to tell her so 

She just didn't know, I would really go