"Teardrops" is a single by George Harrison, released on 20 July 1981 in the United States and 31 July in the UK. It was the second single from the album Somewhere in England and reached number 51 on the US Billboard Top Tracks chart and number 102 on the Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart. In Japan, it was released on 25 September.

Harrison did not include "Teardrops" on his original proposed track listing for Somewhere in England, but it was added, along with "All Those Years Ago" and two other songs, when the record label refused four of the songs Harrison originally wanted to include.

Besides Harrison on vocals and guitar, the musicians on "Teardrops" include Herbie Flowers on bass, Ray Cooper on percussion, Dave Mattacks on drums and Mike Moran on keyboards. Cooper also helped produce the song.

Authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter compare "Teardrops"' feel and melody to Elton John, calling the song "probably the best of the toe-tappers that George composed for the revised Somewhere in England. Author Ian Inglis also sees a resemblance between "Teardrops" and several of Elton John's 1970s hits, calling it "a perfectly plausible piece of middle-of-the-road pop" that "lacks Harrison's signature." Inglis attributed the relationship with Elton John's songs in part to Cooper, who had worked with John. Harrison biographer Simon Leng similarly describes the song as a "perfectly pleasant...well-produced power pop tune with a catchy hook and an attractive bridge" but ultimately dismisses the song as "forgettable pop fluff" that sounds like "hack work." Harrison biographer Graeme Thomson is more dismissive, stating that it sounds like it was "written to order through gritted teeth" in order to conform to the popular music style of the time which Harrison didn't like or understand.

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