Pictures From Life's Other Side

In the world's mighty gallery of pictures
 Hang the scenes that're painted from life
 There's pictures of love and of passion
 And there's pictures of peace and of strife
 There hang pictures of youth and of beauty
 Of old age and a blushing young bride
 They all hang on the wall, but the saddest of all
 Are the pictures from life's other side
 Just a picture from life's other side, someone has fell by the way
 A life has gone out with the tide that might have been happy some day
 There's a poor old mother at home, she's watching and waiting alone
 Just longing to hear from a loved one so dear, just a picture from life's other side
 The first scene is that of a gambler who had lost all his money at play
 And he draws his dead mother's ring from his finger
 That she wore long ago on her wedding day
 It's his last earthly treasure, but he stakes it
 Then he bows his head that his shame he might hide
 But when they lifted his head, they found he was dead
 That's just a picture from life's other side
 Now the last scene is that by the river of a heartbroken mother and babe
 As the harbor lights shine, and they shiver on an outcast whom no one will save
 And yet she was once a true woman
 She was somebody's darling and pride
 God help her, she leaps for there's no one to weep
 It's just a picture from life's other side