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A Picture from Life’s Other Side

by Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams
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In the world’s mighty gallery of pictures

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There’s scenes painted from life

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Scenes of youth and of beauty

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Scenes of hardship and strife

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Scenes of wealth and of plenty

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Old age and a blushing young bride

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All hang on the wall

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But the saddest of all

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Is a picture from life’s other side

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A picture from life’s other side

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Somebody has fell by the way

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And a light has gone out with the tide

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That might have been happy someday

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Some poor mother at home

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Is watching and waiting alone

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Longing to hear, from her sweatheart so dear

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That’s a picture from life’s other side

Now the first scene is that of two brothers

Their paths in life differently led

One lived in luxury and riches

And the other one begged for his bread

One night they met on the highway

Your money; your life; one cried

Then with his knife, he took his own brother’s life

That’s a picture from life’s other side

Now the next scene is down by the river

A heartbroken mother and babe

In the harbor light there see them shiver

Outcasts that no one will save

Once she was a true woman

Somebody’s darling and pride

God help her she leaps

There’s no one to weap

That’s a picture from life’s other side