In the world's gallery of pictures There're scenes are painted from life, of youth and of beauty, Scenes of and strife, Scenes of and of plenty, Old age and the young bride, on the wall - but the saddest of all Is a from life's other side.
A picture life's other side Someone has by the way And a life has gone out with the That might have happy someday Some mother at home Is watching and a-waiting Longing to hear - from her one so dear That's a picture from other side.
Now the scene is one of two brothers Their them both diff'rently led One lived in and riches And the other one for his bread One night they met on the "Your or life, sir", one cried And with his knife - took his own brother's life That's a picture from other side.
The next scene is that of a Who had lost all his money at An' he draws his dead mother's ring his finger That she wore long ago on her day It's his last earthly treasure, but he it Then he bows his head that his he may hide But, they lifted his head - they found he was dead a picture from life's other side.
Now the last scene is down by the Of a heart-broken and babe In the harbor light glare see shiver that no one will save Once she was a true woman Somebody's and pride God help her, she leaps - for there's no one to a picture from life's other side.