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