A Picture from Two Sides of Life Merle Haggard

In the world's mighty gallery of pictures
There're scenes that are painted from life
Scenes of youth and of beauty
Scenes of hardship and strife

Scenes of wealth and of plenty
Old age and the blushing young bride
Hang on the wall - but the saddest of all
Is a pictures from life's other side

A picture from life's other side
Someone has fell by the way
And a life has gone out with the tide
That might have been happy someday

Some poor mother at home
Is watching and a-waiting alone
Longing to hear - from her loved one so dear
That's a picture from life's other side

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 for his bread

One night they met on the highway
"Your money or life, sir", one cried
And then with his knife - took his own brother's life
That's a picture from life's other side