Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song A Picture From Life's Other Side, artist - Woody Guthrie. Date of issue: 05.11.2019
Song language: English
A Picture From Life's Other Side |
| In the world’s mighty gallery of pictures |
| There are scenes that are painted from life |
| Scenes of youth and of beauty |
| Scenes of hardship and strife |
| Scenes of wealth and of plenty |
| Old age and the blushing young bride |
| Hang on the wall but the saddest of all |
| Is a pictures from life’s other side |
| A picture from life’s other side |
| Someone has fell by the way |
| And a life has gone out with the tide |
| That might have been happy someday |
| Some poor mother at home |
| Is watching and a-waiting alone |
| Longing to hear from her loved one, so dear |
| That’s a picture from life’s other side |
| Now the first scene is one of two brothers |
| Their paths them both differently led |
| One lived in luxury and riches |
| And the other one begged for his bread |
| One night they met on the highway |
| «Your money or life, sir», one cried |
| And then with his knife took his own brother’s life |
| That’s a picture from life’s other side |
| The next scene is that of a gambler |
| Who had lost all his money at play |
| An' 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 his shame he may hide |
| But, when they lifted his head they found he was dead |
| That’s a picture from life’s other side |
| A picture from life’s other side |
| Someone has fell by the way |
| And a life has gone out with the tide |
| That might have been happy someday |
| Some poor mother at home |
| Is watching and a-waiting alone |
| Longing to hear from her loved one, so dear |
| That’s a picture from life’s other side |
| Now the last scene is down by the river |
| Of a heart broken mother and babe |
| In the harbor light glare see them shiver |
| Outcasts that no one will save |
| Once she was once a true woman |
| Somebody’s darlin' and pride |
| God help her, she leaps for there’s no one to weep |
| That’s a picture from life’s other side |
| A picture from life’s other side |
| Someone has fell by the way |
| And a life has gone out with the tide |
| That might have been happy someday |
| Some poor mother at home |
| Is watching and a-waiting alone |
| Longing to hear from her loved one, so dear |
| That’s a picture from life’s other side |