An acre of diamonds I'd offer to you A solid gold mansion, an airplane or two This whole world would be yours to have and to hold If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold I'd have all the riches my pockets would hold I'd be, oh, so wealthy with treasures untold If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold The tears that have fallen won't buy you a thing The heartaches you've caused me won't pay for a ring The love that I wanted would not have grown cold If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold I'd have all the riches my pockets would hold I'd be, oh, so wealthy with treasures untold If teardrops were pennies and heartaches were gold But teardrops aren't pennies And heartaches aren't gold

If teardrops were diamonds And only mine were used They could pave every highway Coast to coast And not be close to through If teardrops were diamonds Cold blue If heartaches were rubies Stacked up just like stones There would be a mountain Ten miles high Built by mine alone If heartaches were rubies Mine alone You might begin to understand The price that love has to pay For being wrong Solo If sad thoughts were emeralds And with not counting In between Just half the ones I've had today Could turn The whole world green If sad thoughts were emeralds And the world turned green You might just Get the message that There's more to loneliness Than can be seen If teardrops were diamonds And only mine were used...

(Michael Henderson/Mark Irwin) If the jukebox took teardrops And the whiskey was free If that ol' car in the parking lot Drove home automatically If every night 'neath the honky tonk lights Didn't start those memories Wouldn't it be a wonderful world For somebody just like me How long can a girl keep goin' Like every day's the last I've paid off the rent and the government Maybe I could pay off the past If the jukebox took teardrops And the whiskey was free If that ol' car in the parking lot Drove home automatically If every night 'neath the honky tonk lights Didn't start those memories Wouldn't it be a wonderful world For somebody just like me Wouldn't I be on easy street Livin' this life of mine I could keep right on till the hurt's all gone And it wouldn't cost me a dime If the jukebox took teardrops And the whiskey was free If that ol' car in the parking lot Drove home automatically If every night 'neath the honky tonk lights Didn't start those memories Wouldn't it be a wonderful world For somebody just like me If the jukebox took teardrops And the whiskey was free

If you were mine I could be a ruler of kings And if you were mine I could do such wonderful things I'd say to the stars Stop where you are Light up my lover's way And every star above you would obey, say If you were mine I would live for your love alone To kneel at your shrine I would give up all that I own Yes, even my heart Even my life I'd trade it all for you And think I was lucky too If you were mine