Hank Williams - A Picture from Life’s Other Side guitar chord

A Picture From Life's Other Side

(Hank Williams Sr)

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In the world's mighty gall'ry of pictures

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Hang scenes that are painted from life

There's pictures of joy and of sorrow

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There's pictures of peace and of strife

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There's pictures of youth and beauty

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Old age and the blushing young bride

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All hang on the wall, but the saddest of all

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Is a picture from life's other side.

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Just a picture from life's other side

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Someone who fell by the way

A life has gone out with the tide

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That may have been happy one day

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Some poor old mother at home

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Is watching and waiting alone

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Just longing to hear from her loved ones so dear

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It's a picture from life's other side.

The first scene is that of a gambler

Who lost all his money at play

Draws his dead mother's ring from his finger

That she wore on her wedding day

His last earthly treasure, he stakes it

Bows his head that his shame he might hide

When they lifted his head, they found he was dead

It's a picture from life's other side..

The next scene is that of two brothers

Whose paths in life different ways led

The one was a-livin' in luxury

While t'other one begged for his bread

One dark night they met on a high3way

"Your money or life" the thief cried

Then he took with his knife his dear brother's life

It's a picture from life's other side.

The next scene is down by the river

A heart-broken mother and child

The old harbor lights stand and shiver

On an outcast that no one will save

Perhaps she was once a good woman

Somebody's darlin' and pride

God help her, she leaps, there is no one to weep

It's a picture from life's other side.