By the Time I Get to Phoenix

Jimmy Webb

By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising
 She'll find the note I left hanging on her door
 She'll laugh when she reads the part that says
 I'm leaving 'cause I've left that girl so many time before

By the time I make Albuquerque, she'll be working
 She'll probably stop at lunch and give me a call
 But she'll just hear that phone keep on 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
 Though time and time I've tried to tell her so
 She just didn't know I would really go

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Songwriters: Jimmy Webb