Johnny Dowd
A Picture From Life's Other Side
In the world's mighty gallery of picturesHang scenes that are painting from lifeThere;s pictures of love and of passionThere's pictures of peace and of strifeThere hang pictures of youth and of beautyOf old age and the blushing young brideThey all hang on the wall but the saddest of allAre the pictures from Life's other sidePicture from life's other sideSomeone has fell by the wayA life has gone out with the tideThat might have been happy somedayThere's a poor old mother at homeShe's watching and waiting aloneJust longing to hear from a loved one so dearJust a picture from life's other sideThe first scene is that of a gamblerWho had lost all of his money at playAnd he draws his dead mother's ring from his fingerThat she wore on her wedding dayIt's his last earthly treasure but he stakes it,Then he bows his head in shameBut when they lifted his headThey found he was deadLetras de cancionesThat's just a picture from life's other sideNow the last scene is that by the riverOf a heartbroken mother and babeAs the harbor lights shine and they shiverOn an outcast whom no one will saveAnd 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 weepIt's just a picture from life's other side
From Letras Mania