A Picture From Two Sides Of Life chords by
Merle Haggard

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Key: G major•

Verse 1

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In the world's mighty

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gallery of pictures

There're scenes that

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are painted from life,

Scenes of youth and of beauty,

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Scenes of hardship and strife,

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Scenes of wealth and of plenty,

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Old age and the blushing young bride,

Hang on the wall - but the saddest of all

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Is a pictures from life's other side.

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A picture from life's other side Someone

Verse 2

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has fell by the way

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And a life has gone out with the tide

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That might have been happy

someday

Some poor mother at home

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Is watching and a- waiting alone

Longing to hear - from her

loved one so dear

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

Verse 3

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Now the first scene is

one of two brothers

Their paths them both diff'rently led

One lived in luxury and riches

And the other one begged

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for his bread

One night they met on the highway

"Your money or life, sir", one cried

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And then with his knife - took his own

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brother's life

That's a picture from

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life's other side.

Verse 4

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The next scene is that

of a gambler

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Who had lost all his money at play

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An' he draws his dead mother's

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ring from his finger

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That she wore long

ago on her wedding day

It's his last earthly treasure,

but he stakes it

Then he bows his head that his

shame he may hide

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But, when they lifted his head - they found

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he was dead

Verse 5

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

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A picture from life's other side

Someone has fell by the way

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And a life has gone out with the tide

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That might have been happy

someday

Some poor mother at home

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Is watching and a- waiting alone

Longing to hear - from

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her loved one so dear

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That's a picture from life's

Verse 6

other side.

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Now the last scene is down by the river

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Of a heart- broken mother and babe

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In the harbor light glare

see them shiver

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Outcasts that no one will save

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Once she was once a true

woman

Somebody's darlin' and pride

God help her,

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she leaps - for there's no one to weep

That's a picture from

life's other side.

Verse 7

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A picture from life's

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other side

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Someone has fell by the way

And a life has

gone out with the tide

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That might have been happy

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someday

Some poor mother at home

Is watching and a- waiting alone

Longing to hear - from her

loved one so dear

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

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