Counting My Teardrops Song Lyrics and Chords by Johnny Tillotson
Counting My Teardrops
Recorded by Johnny Tillotson
Written by Johnny Tillotson and Paul Tannen
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I'll keep
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counting teardrops
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till you're bac
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k
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They say a little tear can hurt an
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awful
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But it'll break your heart when it's caused by someone
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who's
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They say a little tear
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won't ever
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go
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Till someone who forgot to stay
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home comes home to
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stay
I'm
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counting my teardrops as they
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fall one by one
Each
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tear reminds me that you said
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good-
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bye
I'm
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counting my teardrops as I
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sit alone and cry
And I'll keep
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counting teardrops
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till you're bac
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k
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Things aren't right my world is
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at an end
And my dreams have gone to pieces seems
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I just can't win
Since you've been gone I
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don't know
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what I'll do
Cause my dreams were all built around
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dreams that'll never come
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FAQ
Who sang the the song Counting My Teardrops?
- The song Counting My Teardrops was sang by Johnny Tillotson.
Who is Johnny Tillotson?
- Johnny Tillotson (born April 20, 1938 in Jacksonville, Florida, United States) is an American singer-songwriter. He enjoyed his greatest success in the early 1960s, when he scored nine top-ten hits on the pop, country, and adult contemporary Billboard charts, including "Poetry in Motion" and the self-penned "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'" and "Without You".
