A Picture From Life's Other Side

In the world's mighty gall'ry of pictures

Hang scenes that are painted from life,

There's pictures of joy and of sorrow,

There's pictures of peace and of strife,

There's 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.

cho: 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 ones so dear,

it's a picture from life's other side.

The first scene is that of a gambler,

Who lost all his money at play,

Draws his dead mother's ring from his finger

That she wore on her wedding day.

His last earthly treasure, he stakes it

Bows 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.

The next scene is that of two brothers

Whose paths in life different ways led,

The one was a-living' in luxury

While t'other one begged for his bread;

One dark night they met on a highway,