Written by: Jimmy Webb
Originally made famous
by: Glen Campbell
From the Album: Complete Reprise Studio Recordings
Label: Reprise Records
Recorded: November 12, 1968
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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 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 the phone
keep on ringing, on the wall, that's all.
By the time I reach 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 again I
tried to tell her so.
She just didn't know I would really go.