By the Time I Get to Phoenix lyrics

By the time I get to Phoenix

She'll be risin'

She'll find the note I done left

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

Give me a call

Oh, but she'll just hear that phone

Keep on ringin'

Jumpin' off the wall

That's all

That's all

Oh, by the time I make Oklahoma

She'll be sleepin'

Yeah, she's gonna turn softly

And call my name out low

Oh, she'll cry just to think

I'd really leave her

Oh, when time, time and time again

I've tried to tell her so

She just didn't know

I would really go

She just didn't know

I would say goodbye

Bye-bye

• Artist:Marvin Gaye