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In the world's mighty gallery of picturesHang the scenes that are painted from lifeThere's pictures of love and of passionThen there'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 lifes other side.Just a picture 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 dearIts just a picture from life's other side.The first scene is that of a gamblerWho had lost all his money at playAn he draws his dead mothers ring from his fingerThat she wore long ago on her wedding dayIts his last earthly treasure, but he stakes itThen he bows his head that his shame he may hideBut, when they lifted his head - they found he was deadThat's just a picture from lifes other side.Letras de cancionesNow the last scene is that by the riverOf a heart-broken mother and babeAs the harbor lights shine and they shiverOn an outcast whom no one will saveAnd yet, she was once a true womanShe was somebody's darlin' and prideGod help her, she leaps - for theres no one to weepIts just a picture from lifes other side.Extra verse:The next was a scene of two brothersWhose pathways so different had ledOne lived the life of a rich manThe other one begged for his breadThen one night they met on the highwayYour money or life, the thief criedAnd then with his knife - took his own brothers lifeIts just a picture from life's other side. From Letras Mania