A Picture From Lifes Other Side

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In the world's mighty gallery of pictures
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There're scenes that are painted from life,
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Scenes of youth and of beauty,
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Scenes of hardship and strife,
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Scenes of wealth and of plenty,
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Old age and the blushing young bride,
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They hang on the wall - but the saddest of all
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Are the pictures from life's other side.

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A picture from life's other side
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Someone has fell by the way
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And a life has gone out with the tide
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That might have been happy someday
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Some poor mother at home
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Is watching and a-waiting alone
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Longing to hear - from her loved one so dear
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That's a picture from life's other side.

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Now the first scene is one of two brothers
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Their paths them both diff'rently led
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One lived in luxury and riches
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And the other one begged for his bread
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One night they met on the highway
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"Your money or life, sir", one cried
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And then with his knife - took his own brother's life
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That's a picture from life's other side.

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The next scene is that of a gambler
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Who had lost all his money at play
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An' he draws his dead mother's ring from his finger
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That she wore long ago on her wedding day
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It's his last earthly treasure, but he stakes it
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Then he bows his head that his shame he may hide
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But, when they lifted his head - they found he was dead
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That's a picture from life's other side.

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A picture from life's other side
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Someone has fell by the way
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And a life has gone out with the tide
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That might have been happy someday
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Some poor mother at home
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Is watching and a-waiting alone
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Longing to hear - from her loved one so dear
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That's a picture from life's other side.

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Now the last scene is down by the river
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Of a heart-broken mother and babe
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In the harbor light glare see them shiver
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Outcasts that no one will save
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Once she was once a true woman
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Somebody's darlin' and pride
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God help her, she leaps - for there's no one to weep
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That's a picture from life's other side.

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A picture from life's other side
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Someone has fell by the way
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And a life has gone out with the tide
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That might have been happy someday
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Some poor mother at home
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Is watching and a-waiting alone
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Longing to hear - from her loved one so dear
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That's a picture from life's other side.