| In the world’s mighty gall’ry of pictures
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| Hang the scenes that are painted from life
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| There’s pictures of love and of passion
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| And there hangs a pictures of peace and of strife
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| There hangs pictures of youth and of beauty'
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| Of old age and the blushing young bride
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| They all hang on the wall, aw, but the saddest of all
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| Are the picture from life’s other side
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| Chorus: (Sang)
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| Yes, te picture from life’s other side
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| Someone has fell by the way
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| A life has gone out with the tide
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| Aw, That may have been happy some day
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| There a poor old mother at home
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| She’s watching and waiting alone
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| Just longing to hear from a loved one so dear
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| It’s just a picture from life’s other side
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| (Spoken)
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| Now the first scene is that of a gambler
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| Who’d lost all of his money playin'
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| And then his 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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| Aw, it was his last earthly treasure, but he staked it
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| And then he bows his head that his shame he might hide
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| Aw, but when they lifted his head, they found he was dead
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| That’s just a picture from life’s other side
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| Now the last scene is set down by the river
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| Of a heart-broken mother and babe
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| And as the harbor lights shine and they shiver
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| On an outcast that no one will save
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| And yet she was once a true woman
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| She was somebody’s darlin' and pride
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| (Sang)
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| God help her, she leaps, for there’s no one to weep
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| It’s just a picture from life’s other side… |