Hank Williams – Pictures From Lifes Other Side (Guitar)

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In the world's mighty galleries of pictures

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Hang the scenes that are painted from life

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The pictures of love and of passion

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There's pictures of peace and of strife

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Then there are pictures of youth and of beauty

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Of old age and the blushing young bride

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They all hang on the wall, but the saddest of all

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Are the pictures from life's other side

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'Tis a picture from life's other side

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Someone who's fell by the way

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A life has gone out with the tide

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That might have been happy some day

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There's a poor old mother at home

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Just watching and waiting alone

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She's longing to hear from her loved one so dear

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It's a picture from life's other side

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The first scene is that of a gambler

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Who had lost all his money at play

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Drew his dead mother's ring from his finger

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Yes, the one she wore on her wedding day

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His last earthly treasure, he stakes it

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And he bows his head, his shame he might hide

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Then when they lifted his head they found he was dead

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Another picture from life's other side

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The next tale is that of two brothers

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Whose paths in life different led

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For one was a luxury in living

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But the other brother begged for his bread

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Then one dark night they met on the highway

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Your money or life, the thief cried

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And then with his knife, he took his own brother's life

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Just a picture from life's other side

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The last scene is that by the river

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Of a heartbroken mother and babe

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As the harbor lights shine and they shiver

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On an outcast whom no one will save

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And yet she was once a true woman

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She was somebody's darling and pride

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

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

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There's a new scene now in Korea

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Of a boy with a gun in the snow

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In a foxhole, frozen and homesick

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He's fighting for us as you know

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He's lonesome and weary and frightened

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His life may go out with the tide

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But pray God, he'll return to the loved ones who yearn

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