In the world's gallery of pictures There're that are painted from life, Scenes of and of beauty, Scenes of and strife, of wealth 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 the tide might have been happy someday Some mother at home Is and a-waiting alone to hear - from her loved one so dear That's a picture from life's side.
Now the first is one of two brothers Their paths them diff'rently led One lived in luxury and And the other one for his bread One night met on the highway "Your or life, sir", one cried And with his knife - took his own brother's life a picture from life's other side.
The next scene is that of a Who had lost all his at play An' he draws his mother's ring from his finger That she wore long ago on her day It's his earthly treasure, but he stakes it Then he bows his head that his shame he may But, when they lifted his - they found he was dead That's a picture from life's side.
Now the last scene is down by the Of a heart-broken mother and In the harbor light see them shiver Outcasts no one will save Once she was once a woman Somebody's and pride God help her, she leaps - for no one to weep That's a picture from life's side.