A Picture From Life's Other Side chords by 
Porter Wagoner 
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Key: F major•
Verse 1
F
C
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C
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In the world's mighty
gallery of pictures
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hang s scenes that
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are painted from life.
C
F
There's pictures of love and of passion,
G
and there's pic tures of
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peace and of strife.
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There hang pictures of
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youth an d of beauty
Bbm
and of old age
Bb
F
and the blushing young bride.
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Bb
But the saddest of all,
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they don't hang on the wall.
They're just the pictures
C
F
from life's oth er side.
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F
The first scene is that of a gambler
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Bbm
Bb
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who had lost all of his money at play
C
F
And he draws his dead mother's ring
from his finger
G
Dm
C
that she wore long ago on
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her wedding day
It's his last earthly treasure
but he stakes it
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F
Then he bows his head
Bb
that in shame he might hide
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But when they lifted his head
C
they found he was dead
F
That's just a picture from
life's other side
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Now the last scene is that by the river
F
Of a heartbroken mother and babe
As the harbor light shines and they shiver
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C
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On an outcast who no one will save
Now yet she was once a true woman
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Bb
She was somebody's darling in pride
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But God help her she leaps
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And there's no one to weep
C
That's just a picture from
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life's other side
Just a picture from life's other side
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someone has fell by the way
a life that's gone out with the tide
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that might have been happy someday
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there's a poor old mother
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at home watch ing and waiting alone.
Bb
Just longing to hear from
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a loved one so dear,
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just a picture from life's oth er side.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF C Bb G Bbm...
F
C
Bb
G
Bbm
F#dim
Dm
Capo: 3
Transpose: 0
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