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A Picture from Life's Other Side/Pictures from Life's Other Side/Life's Other Side
Public Domain Old-Time, Bluegrass Gospel by Charles E. Baer 1896;
ARTIST: Charles E. Baer;
CATEGORY: Traditional Bluegrass Gospel;
DATE: Charles E. Baer 1896; Printed/Arranged by Vaughan in 1900; Recorded by Smith's Sacred Singers in 1926
RECORDING INFO: A Picture from Life's Other Side [Me II-L 8] - Baer, Charles E.
Albert E Brumley's Songs of the Pioneers, Brumley, Fol (1970), 22
Blue Sky Boys. Bluegrass Mountain Music, Camden ADL-2-0726, LP (1974), trk# 19 [1940/10/07] (Picture from Life's Other Side)
Blue Sky Boys. Blue Sky Boys / Sunny Side of Life, Rounder 1006, LP (1973), trk# B.03 [1940/10/07]
Elliott, Ramblin' Jack. Long Ride, Hightone HCD 8107, CD (1999), trk# 6 (Picture from Life's Other Side)
Ensign, Bob; and the Stump Jumpers. Mountain Guitar Pickin', Rural Rhythm RRBE 255, LP (1972), trk# A.01 (Life's Other Side)
Guthrie, Woody. Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Vol. 2, Folkways FA 2484, LP (1964), trk# A.04
Kincaid, Bradley. Mountain Ballads and Old Time Songs, Old Homestead OHCS 107, LP (197?), trk# B.07 [1931/01/02] (Picture from Life's Other Side)
Robinson, R. H.. Randolph, Vance / Ozark Folksongs. Volume IV, Religous Songs and Others, Univ. of Missouri, Bk (1980/1946), p 31/#603 [1917/12/18]
Seldom Scene. New Seldom Scene Album, Rebel REB 1561, LP (1976), trk# 11
Story, Carl. Best of Carl Story, Starday SLP 956, LP (1975), trk# 4
West, Hedy; and Bill Clifton. Getting Folk Out of the Country, Bear Family BF 15008, LP (198?/1972), trk# 10
White, Hal S.. Shay, Frank (ed.) / My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions and More ..., Dover, Sof (1961/1927), p148
MORE RECORDINGS: Benny Borg (The Singing Soldier), "Pictures from Life's Other Side" (Columbia 15183-D, 1927)
The Blue Sky Boys, "Picture From Life's Other Side" (Bluebird 8646/Montgomery Ward M-8845, 1941; rec. 1940)
The Clinch Valley Boys, "Picture From Life's Other Side" (Champion 15316/Silvertone 5091/Challenge 393 [as Borton & Lang], 1927)
Vernon Dalhart, "Pictures from Life's Other Side" (OKeh 40696, 1926)
Hank & Slim, "Three Pictures of Life's Other Side" (Vocalion 02808,/Vocalion 02840, 1934)
Harkins & Moran [pseud. for Sid Harkreader & Grady Moore], "A Picture from Life's Other Side" (Broadway 8055, c. 1930)
Jenkins Family [or Jenkins Sacred Singers], "Pictures from Life's Other Side" (OKeh 45134, 1927)
Matt Judson, "Pictures from Life's Other Side" (Clarion 5141-C, 1930)
Kelly Family, "A Picture from Life's Other Side" (Decca 5054, 1934)
Bradley Kincaid, "A Picture from Life's Other Side" (Vocalion 5476, 1930; Conqueror 7983, 1932; Vocalion 4647, 1939)
Luke the Drifter [pseud., Hank Williams], "Pictures from Life's Other Side" (MGM 11120, 1951)
Frank Luther's Trio, "A Picture of Life's Other Side" (Decca 5039, 1934)
Old Southern Sacred Singers, "Picture from Life's Other Side" (Brunswick 115, 1926; recut 1932)
Sam Patterson Trio, "Pictures from Life's Other Side" (Edison 52085, 1927)
Goebel Reeves, "Pictures from Life's Other Side" (MacGregor 875, n.d.)
Smith's Sacred Singers, "Pictures from Life's Other Side" (Columbia 15090-D, 1926/Vocalion 02949, 1935) (Bluebird B-5606, 1934; Montgomery Ward M-4804, 1935)
Smoky Mountain Sacred Singers "'Tis a Picture From Life's Other Side" (Vocalion 5119, c. 1927/Domino 0186, 1927 [as Smoky Mountain Twins ,"A Picture From Life's Other Side"])
"'Tis a Picture From Life's Other Side" (Vocalion 5119, 1927; rec. 1926) (Domino 0186 [as Smoky Mountain Twins,"A Picture From Life's Other Side"], 1927/Challenge 667/Banner 6041 [both as Lonesome Pine Twins, "A Picture from Life's Other Side"], 1927; Banner 0586 [as :Smoky Mountain Twins, "Picture from Life's Other Side"], 1930)
Frank Welling, "Picture[s] from Life's Other Side" (Champion 15924 [as Clarence Young]/Supertone 9612 [as Frank Hill], 1930)
OTHER NAMES: "Picture from Life's Other Side;" "Life's Other Side"
SOURCES: Meade; Folk Index
Randolph 603, "A Picture from Life's Other Side" (1 text, 1 tune)
Randolph/Cohen, pp. 422-424, "A Picture from Life's Other Side" (1 text, 1 tune -- Randolph's 603)
Silber-FSWB, p. 265, "A Picture From Life's Other Side" (1 text)
Meredith/Covell/Brown, pp. 153-154, "The Lights of London Town" (1 text, 1 tune, quite distinct from the common version)
NOTES: "A Picture from Life's Other Side" by Charles E. Baer (1896) was a huge hit song for Smith's Sacred Singers in 1926. The Australian piece, "The Lights of London Town," shares almost none of the words of the American texts, and lacks the image of the picture but is a similar song.
"A Picture from Life's Other Side" was recorded by Vernon Dalhart and The Jenkins Sacred Singers in the 1920s and later by the Blue Sky Boys, Hank Williams, and Woody Guthrie.
A Picture from Life's Other Side- Charles Baer/ Arranged also Vaughan
From Folksinger's Wordbook, Silber
In the world's mighty gall'ry of pictures
Hang scenes that are painted from life,
There's pictures of joy and of sorrow,
There's pictures of peace and of strife,
There's pictures of youth and of beauty'
Old age and the blushing young bride.
All hang on the wall, but the saddest of all,
Is a picture from life's other side.
Chorus: It's a picture from life's other side,
Someone who fell by the way;
A life has gone out with the tide
That may have been happy one day;
Some poor old mother at home
Is watching and waiting alone,
Just longing to hear from her loved ones so dear,
It's a picture from life's other side.
The next scene is that of a gambler
Who lost all his money at play,
Draws his dead mother's ring from his finger
That she wore on her glad wedding day.
His last earthly treasure, he stakes it
Bows his head that his shame he might hide,
When they lifted his head, they found he was dead,
It's a picture from life's other side.
The next scene is that of two brothers
Whose paths in life different ways led,
The one was a-living' in luxury
While t'other one begged for his bread;
One dark night they met on a highway,
"Your money or life" the thief cried;
Then he took with his knife, his dear brother's life,
It's a picture from life's other side.
The next scene is down by the river,
A heart-broken mother and child,
The old harbor lights stand and shiver,
On an outcast that no one will save;
Perhaps she was once a good woman.
Somebody's darlin' and pride,
God help her, she leaps, there is no one to weep,
It's a picture from life's other side.
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