WHEN YOU GET YOUR TICKET

When you get your ticket,
Then I'll know you're flying.
When I say I'm happy,
Then you'll know I'm lying.
I'll try California,
You'll try running around.
It never worked before, babe,
And it ain't working now.

Like a railroad station,
That's just what I've been.
You rolled up beside me,
Now you've gone again.
Don't know where you're going,
Don't know what you'll find.
I don't mind you going,
Just can't stand staying behind.

I've been asking questions,
You will answer none.
How you could love so many
And I can love but one.
If you miss me sometime,
Miss your man at all,
Just tell the operator
And I will pay the call.

Repeat 1st verse.

I think this is by Tom Paxton, but I wrote the lyrics down decades ago, and didn't note the writer.

JB