Pictures from life's other side
In the world's magic gallery of pictures Are the scenes that are painted from life There are pictures of love and of passion There are pictures of war and of strife There are pictures of youth and of beauty Old age and the blushing young bride All hang on the wall, but the saddest of all Are the pictures of life's other side Just a pictures of life's other side Someone who fell by the way A life has gone out with the tide That might have been happy some day Some poor old mother at home Watching and waiting alone Longing to hear from a loved one so dear Just a pictures from life's other side The first is a scene of a gambler Who lost all his money at play Draws his dead mother's ring from his finger She wore it on her wedding day His last earthly treasure, he stakes it Bows his head that hes shame he may hide When they lifted his head, they found he was dead Just a pictures from life's other side The next tells the tale of two brothers Whose paths in different ways led the one was in luxury living The other one begger for his bread One dark night they met on the highway Your money or life, the thief cried And he took with his knife his own brother's life Just a picture from life's other side