A Nickel a Teardrop

(lively rockabilly shuffle)                                                                      Robert Wills '75?

If I had a nickel a teardrop, I'd raise a fortune,

And I'd donate it to my favourite charity

If I had a nickel a teardrop, I'd buy a page in history

But you know, Lord, I can't afford to cry for free

Every night, I waste a thousand teardrops

Worryin' about the way things might have been

Out of work and low on inspiration

Is it any wonder, I curse this poverty

     (chorus)

If I had a dime for every heartache,

I would trade them in, and buy a limousine

If I could find someone that I could sell my sorrows to,

You know I'd do it, I don't need this misery

     (chorus)

If I had a nickel a teardrop, a teardrop, a teardrop,

A nickel a teardrop, a teardrop, a teardrop...etc.