It's a picture
from life's other side
Someone who fell by the way
A life has gone out with the tide
Death may have been
happy one day
Some poor old mother at home
is watching and waiting alone
Just longing to hear
from her loved one so dear
It's a picture from life's other side
In the world's mighty
galleries of pictures
Hang the scenes that are
painted from life
Pictures of joy and of sorrow,
pictures of peace and strife
Pictures of youth and of beauty,
old age and the blushing young bride
All hang on the wall, but the saddest of all
Is a picture from life's other side
The first scene is that of a gambler
Who lost all his money at play
Drew his dead mother's
ring from his finger
That she wore on her wedding day
His last earth a treasure he staked it
Bowed his head that his
shame he might hide
When they lifted his head
they found he was dead
It's a picture from life's other side
It's a picture from life's
other side
Someone who fell by the way
A life has gone out with the tide
That may have been happy one day
Some poor old mother at home
Is watching and waiting alone
Just longing to hear
From her loved one so dear
It's a picture from life's other side
The next scene is that of two brothers,
whose paths in life different they led.
One was a living in luxury,
while the other one
begged for his bread.
One dark night they met on the highway.
Your money, your life, the thief cried
Then he took with his knife
his own brother's life
It's a picture from life's
other side
The last scene is down by the river
A heartbroken mother and babe
The harbor lights, oh how they glitter
On an outcast that
no one will save
Perhaps she was once a good woman,
Someone's darling in pride.
God help her, she leaps,
There's no one to weep,
It's a picture from life's other side.
It's a picture from life's other side,
Someone who fell by the way.
A life has gone out with the tide
That may have been happy one day
Some poor old mother at home
Is watching and waiting alone
Just longing to hear
From her loved one so dear
It's a picture from life's other side
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