By The Time I Get To Phoenix

                          Roger Miller  

                   By The Time I Get To Phoenix





Fm                              Eb

By the time I get to Phoenix she'll be rising 

       Fm                                  Eb

She'll find the note I left hangin' on her door 

       Ab                       Bb                 Gm        Cm

She'll laugh when she reads the part that says I'm leavin' 

            Fm                           Db      Bb

'Cause I've left that girl so many times before 



       Fm                                Eb

By the time I make Albuquerque she'll be working 

       Fm                                   Eb

She'll probably stop at lunch and give me a call 

    Ab                    Bb            Gm        Cm

But she'll just hear that phone keep on ringin' 

        Fm          Db    Bb

Off the wall that's all 



       Fm                             Eb

By the time I make Oklahoma she'll be sleepin' 

       Fm                               Eb

She'll turn softly and call my name out low

           Ab          Bb               Gm          Cm

And she'll cry just to think I'd really leave her 

       Fm                                Db

Though time and time I tried to tell her so 

         Bb                         C

She just didn't know I would really go.



AD LIB:



Bb                      C   Bb  C

No, she didn't know I'd go