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 keys and of strife      There hung pictures of youth and of beauty   Of old age and a blushing young bride   They all hung 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 of his money at play   And he drowses dead mother's ring from his finger   Which 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   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 baby   As the harbor lights shine and they shiver   On an outcast, soon no one will save      And yet she was once a true woman   She was somebody's darling and pride   God help her she leaps, oh there's no one to weep   It's just a picture from life's other side