A Picture from Life's Other Side

A Picture from Life's Other Side - Woody Guthrie (伍迪·格思里)

In the world's mighty gallery of pictures

There's scenes that're painted from life

Scenes of youth and of beauty

Scenes of hardship and strife

Scenes of wealth and of plenty

Old age and a blushing young bride

Hang on the wall but the saddest of all

Is the pictures from life's other side

A picture from life's other side

Somebody has fell by the way

And a life has gone out with the tide

That might have been happy some day

There's a poor old mother at home

She's watching and waiting alone

Longing to hear from a loved one so dear

Just a picture from life's other side

Now the first scene is one of two brothers

Who had lost all of his money at play

One lived in luxury and riches

And the other went beg for his bread

One night they met on the highway

Your money or lives Sir they cried

Then with his knife took his own brother life

That's a picture from life's other side

Now the next scene is that by the river

A heartbroken mother and babe

In the harbor lights shine and they shiver

Outcast soon no one will save

Once she was once a true woman

Somebody's darling and pride

God help her she leaps there's no one to weep

That's a picture from life's other side

That's a picture from life's other side

Somebody has fell by the way

And a life has gone out with the tide

That might have been happy some day

Some poor mother at home

Watching and waiting alone

Longing to hear from a loved one so dear

That's a picture from life's other side