By The Time I Get To Phoenix (2001 - Remastered) By the time I get to Phoenix She'll be rising 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 working She'll prob'ly 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 Call my name out loud And she'll cry just to Think I'd really leave her Tho' time and time I try to tell her so She just didn't know I would really go