Year: 1990 - Album: All-Time Greatest Hits/All American Country
Written by Johnny River
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By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be risin
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She'll find the note I left hangin on her door
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She'll laugh when she reads the part that say I'm leaving
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Cause I've left that girl so many times before
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By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be workin
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She'll probably stop at lunch and give me a call
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But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringin. Off the wall that's all
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By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleepin
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She'll turn softly and call my name out low
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And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her
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But time and time I've tried to tell her so
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She just didn't know I would really go
Interlude: Gm7 F7M Gm7 F7M Bb7M C7/9 Am7 Dm7 Gm7 Eb7M C7
Gm7 F7M
By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be workin
Gm7 F7M
She'll probably stop at lunch and give me a call
Bb7M C7/9 Am7 Dm7 Gm7 Eb7M C7
But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringin. Off the wall that's all
Gm7 F7M
By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleepin
Gm7 F7M
She'll turn softly and call my name out low
BbM7 C7/9 Am7 Dm7
And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her
Gm7 C7/9 F7M
But time and time I've tried to tell her so
Bb7M Gm7 A7M D7M
She just didn't know I would really go
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