Frank Sinatra – By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Glen Campbell – By the Time I Get to Phoenix (Frank Sinatra) By the time I get to Phoenix she’ll be rising. She’ll find the note I left hanging 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 for lunch and give me a call. But she’ll just hear the phone keep on ringing, on the wall, that’s all. By the time I reach Oklahoma she’ll be sleeping. She’ll turn softly and call my name out low. And she’ll cry just to think I’d really leave her, Though time and time again I tried to tell her so. She just didn’t know I would really go.
As with so many other songs Sinatra makes ‘Phoenix’ his own, intimite song.
From the 1968 ‘Cycles’ album.
beautiful thanks for posting
what a fabulous song, my dad got me into this genre of music, though as a kid i slagged him off for it. now i am passing this on to my kids. thanks dad
@fojay2007
well… isn’t that his thing? he makes every song ‘his own’. and, even if this borders heresy, he does so in a very same-ish, predictable way. in that grainy laissez-faire melancholy of his.
aint it jimmy webb´s song?