Another of the great
Jimmy Webb's songs, words and music by that master. A particularly
melancholy opus.
It's probably his second most enduring work, behind the awesome Wichita Lineman.
Artists who have covered this song include Nick Cave, Isaac Hayes, Dean Martin, Glen Campbell, Johnny Rivers and Henry Mancini.
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 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 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 loud
And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her
Though time and time I try to tell her so
She just didn't know I would really go.