In the world's mighty gallery of pictures hang scenes that're 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