A Picture From Life's Other Side Chords

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[Verse 1]
[G]In [D]the[G] wo[D]rld[G]'s mighty
[D]gallery [G]of pictures
[C]Hang the scenes that are
painted from [G]life
There's a picture of [D]love and of pas[G]sion
And there hang[A]s a picture
of peace and [D]of
There [G]hang pictures of youth and of beauty
[C]Of old age and the blushing young [G]bride
[C]They all hang on the wall,
[G]but the saddest of all
[D]Are the pictures from the life's other [G]side
Just [D]a p[G]icture from life's other side
Someone [C]has felled by the [G]way[D]
[G]Life has blown out with the tide
Or that [A]might have been
happy some [D]day
There's [G]a poor old mother at home
She's [C]watchin' and waitin' [G]alone
Just a [C]longing to hear from
a [G]loved one so dear
It's just a [D]picture from
life's other [G]side[D][G]
[D]Now [G]the first scene is that of a gambler
[C]who had lost all of his money in a [G]play
[D]and then [G]he draws his
dead mother[D]'s ring
from his finger [G]that [A]she had wore long ago
on her wedding [D]day.
Oh, [G]it was his last earthly treasure,
but he stakes it.
[C]And then he bows his head
that his shame [G]he might hide.
[C]Oh, but when they lifted his head,
[G]they found he was dead.
[D]That's just a picture from
life's other [G]side.
Now the last scene is
that down by [C]the river
Of a heartbroken mother [G]and baby
And as the harbor lights
shine and they shiver
[A]On an outcast whom no one [D]will save
[G]And yet, she was once a true woman,
[C]she was somebody's darling [G]pride.
God [C]help her if she leaps,
for [G]there's no one to weep,
it's just a [D]picture from life's of a [G]child