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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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Hang on the wall - but the saddest of all |
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Is a pictures from life's other side. |
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Chorus: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"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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ChorusNow 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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