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A Picture From Life’s Other Side
Recorded by Hank Williams, Sr. [3/4 time]
 
C
In the world's mighty gallery of pictures
         F                            C
Hang the scenes that are painted from life 

There's pictures of love and of passion
             D7                       G7
Then there's pictures of peace and of strife

           C
There hang pictures of youth and of beauty
       F                          C
Of old age and the blushing young bride
         F                        C
They all hang on the wall but the saddest of all
        G7                         C
Are the pictures from life's other side

                                      
Just a picture from life's other side
    F                   C
Someone has fell by the way 

A life has gone out with the tide
     D7                         G7
That might have been happy some day
     
          C
There's a poor old mother at home
      F                     C
She's watching and waiting alone
     F                      C
Just longing to hear from a loved one so dear
            G7                        C
It's just a picture from life's other side


The first scene is that of a gambler
        F                     C
Who had lost all his money at play

And he draws his dead mother's ring from his finger
         D7                           G7
That she wore long ago on her wedding day

         C
It's his last earthly treasure but he stakes it
        F                                   C
Then he bows his head that his shame he may hide
         F                         C
But when they lifted his head they found he was dead
              G7                        C
That's just a picture from life's other side


Now the last scene is that by the river
     F                      C
Of a heartbroken mother and babe

As the harbor lights shine and they shiver
      D7                       G7
On an outcast whom no one will save

        C
And yet she was once a true woman
        F                      C
She was somebody's darling and pride
    F                                 C
God help her she leaps for there's no one to weep
            G7                        C
It's just a picture from life's other side

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