“Teardrops Fell Like Raindrops” is a song recorded by the Johnson Mountain Boys, the Washington, D.C.-area band that was among the leading traditional bluegrass acts of the 1980s. It appeared on their 1993 album “Blue Diamond.”
The song is a heartbreak number built on a weather image. After a love is lost, the singer’s tears come down like rain — grief that cannot be held back — the lyric measuring sorrow by the steady fall of those teardrops.
The Johnson Mountain Boys kept the old bluegrass styles while drawing on fresh material.