Picture from Life's Other Side Lyrics

In the world's mighty gallery of pictures
Hang the scenes that're painted from life
There's pictures of love and of pa*sion
And there's pictures of keys and of strife

There hung pictures of youth and of beauty
Of old age and a blushing young bride
They all hung on the wall but the saddest of all
Are the pictures 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
She's watching and waiting alone
Just longing to hear from a loved one so dear
Just a picture from life's other side

The first scene is that of a gambler
Who had lost all of his money at play
And he drowses dead mother's ring from his finger
Which she wore long ago on her wedding day

It's his last earthly treasure but he stakes it
Then bows his head that his 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 baby
As the harbor lights shine and they shiver
On an outcast, soon no one will save

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

Woody Guthrie - Hard Travelin' Man

May 2007

1. All You Fascists
2. Pretty Boy Floyd
3. Two Good Men
4. Mean Talking Blues
5. Jarama Blues
6. Car Song
7. Oregon Trail
8. I Ride an Old Paint
9. Better World a Comin'
10. Buffalo Gals
11. Slip Knot (Hang Knot)
12. Jesus Christ
13. Ship in the Sky
14. When That Great Ship Went Down
15. Dust Bowl Blues
16. Picture from Life's Other Side
17. Hard, Ain't It Hard
18. Muleskinner Blues
19. Baltimore to Washington
20. Jack Hammer Blues
21. Buffalo Skinners
22. Dig My Life Away
23. Poor Boy
24. Hard Travelin'
25. I Ain't Got Nobody
26. Wreck of the Old 97
27. New Found Land
28. Take a Whiff on Me