By the time I get to
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1. By the time I get to
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she'll find my note I left hanging
on her door.
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She'll laugh when she reads
the part that says I'm leaving,
Dm
C Bb - G
‘cause I
left that girl so many times before.
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2. And by the time I make
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and she'll probably stop at
lunch and give me a call.
- F G Em - Am
But she'll just hear that phone keep right on ringing,
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off the wall, that's all.
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3. And by the time I make
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she'll turn softly and call my
name out low.
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Em - Am
Oh, and she'll cry just to think
I'd really leave her,
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- Am
tho'
time and time I've tried to tell her so.
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- G
She just didn't know that I would really go,
A - G
oh, she didn’t know I’d go.
A G
- A
She didn’t know I’d go.
(orig. = capo 5th) (Glen Campbell)