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In the world's mighty gallery of picturesHang the scenes that're painted from lifeThere's pictures of love and of passionAnd there's pictures of keys and of strifeThere hung pictures of youth and of beautyOf old age and a blushing young brideThey all hung on the wall but the saddest of allAre the pictures from life's other sideJust a picture from life's other sideSomeone has fell by the wayA life has gone out with the tideThat might have been happy some dayThere'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 drowses dead mother's ring from his fingerWhich she wore long ago on her wedding dayIt's his last earthly treasure but he stakes itLetras de cancionesThen bows his head that his shame he might hideBut when they lifted his head they found he was deadThat's just a picture from life's other sideNow the last scene is that by the riverOf a heartbroken mother and babyAs the harbor lights shine and they shiverOn an outcast, soon no one will saveAnd yet she was once a true womanShe was somebody's darling and prideGod help her she leaps, oh there's no one to weepIt's just a picture from life's other side From Letras Mania