A Picture from Life’s Other Side

In the world’s mighty gallery of pictures

There’s scenes painted from life

Scenes of youth and of beauty

Scenes of hardship and strife

Scenes of wealth and of plenty

Old age and a blushing young bride

All hang on the wall

But the saddest of all

Is a picture from life’s other side

A picture from life’s other side

Somebody has fell by the way

And a light has gone out with the tide

That might have been happy someday

Some poor mother at home

Is watching and waiting alone

Longing to hear, from her sweatheart so dear

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

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