In the world's mighty gallery of pictures   Hang scenes that are painted from life   There's pictures of love and of passion   And there's pictures of piece and of strife      There hung pictures of youth and of beauty   And of old age and a blushing young bride   But the saddest of all they don't hung on the wall      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 in 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      Now yet she was once a true woman   She was somebody's darling and pride   But God help her she leaps and there's no one to weep   That's a picture 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   Watching and waiting alone   Just longing to hear from a loved one so dear   Just a picture from life's other side