Key: G
Introduction:
Gm F7M
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
Gm F7M
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
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Off the wall that's all
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By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleepin
Gm F7M
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
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Gm F7M
By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be workin
Gm F7M
She'll probably stop at lunch and give me a call
Bb7M C9 Am7 Dm
But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringin
Gm7 Eb C7
Off the wall that's all
Gm F7M
By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleepin
Gm F7M
She'll turn softly and call my name out low
Bb7M C9 Am7 Dm
And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her
Gm C7 F7M
But time and time I've tried to tell her so
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She just didn't know I would really go.
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