In the world's magic gallery of pictures
Are the scenes that are painted from life
There are pictures of love and of passion
There are pictures of war and of strife
There are pictures of youth and of beauty
Old age and the blushing young bride
All hang on the wall, but the saddest of all
Are the pictures of life's other side

Just a pictures of life's other side
Someone who fell by the way
A life has gone out with the tide
That might have been happy some day
Some poor old mother at home
Watching and waiting alone
Longing to hear from a loved one so dear
Just a pictures from life's other side

The first is a scene of a gambler
Who lost all his money at play
Draws his dead mother's ring from his finger
She wore it on her wedding day
His last earthly treasure, he stakes it
Bows his head that hes shame he may hide
When they lifted his head, they found he was dead
Just a pictures from life's other side

The next tells the tale of two brothers
Whose paths in different ways led
the one was in luxury living
The other one begger for his bread
One dark night they met on the highway
Your money or life, the thief cried
And he took with his knife his own brother's life
Just a picture from life's other side