Picture From Life’s Other Side

In the world's mighty gallery
Of pictures hang
The scenes that're painted from life
There's pictures of love and of passion and
There's pictures of keys and of strife
There hung pictures of youth and of beauty of
Old age and a blushing young bride
They all hung on the wall but the saddest of
All are the pictures from life's other side
Just a picture from life's other side
Someone has fell by the way
A life has gone out with the tide
That might have been happy some day
There's a poor old mother at home
She's watching and waiting alone
Just longing to hear from a loved one so
Dear just a picture from life's other side
Now the first scene is that of a gambler
Who's lost all of his money at play
And he drowses dead mother's
Ring from her finger
That she wore long ago on her wedding day
It's his last earthly treasure
But he stakes it then bows his head that his
Shame he might hide
But when they lifted his head
They found he was dead
That's just a picture from
Life's other side
Now the last scene is that by the
River of a heartbroken mother and babe
As the harbor lights shine and they shiver on
An outcast soon no one will save
And yet she was once a true woman
She was somebody's darling and pride
God help her she leaps but there's no one to
Weep it's a picture from life's other side