Harry Belafonte - By The Time I Get To Phoenix lyrics

By the time I get to Phoenix, she'll be rising She'll find the note I left hangin' on her door Oh, 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 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 loud And she'll cry, just to think I'd really leave her Though time and time, I tried to tell her so She just didn't know I would really go