Picture From Life`s Other Side — текст песни (Bill Anderson)

In the world`s mighty gallery of pictures hang the scenes that`re painted from life
There hang pictures of love and of passion and there`s pictures of sorrow and strife
There hang pictures of youth and of beauty of old age and a blushing young bride
But the saddest of all that hang on the wall 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 who`s watching and waiting alone
Just longing to hear from a loved one so dear it`s a picture from life`s other side
Now the first scene is that of a gambler who`s lost all his money at play
And he reaches down and takes his dead mother`s ring from her finger
The one that she wore long ago on her wedding day
It`s his last earthly treasure but he stakes it
Then bows his head that his shame he might hide
When they lifted his head they found he was dead
It`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 that no one can 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 a picture from life`s other side