Transcribed by "Gunnar Hedlund" Thanks Gunnar! @ARTIST: Dowd, Johnny @ALBUM: Pictures From Life's Other Side @SONG: A Picture From Life's Other Side in the world's mighty gallery of pictures hang scenes that are painting from life there's pictures of love and of passion there's pictures of peace and of strife there hang pictures of youth and of beauty of old age and the blushing young bride they all hang on the wall but the saddest of all are the pictures from life's other side pictures from life's other side someone has fell by the way a life has gone out with the tide that might have been happy someday there's a poor old mother at home she's watching and waiting alone just longing to hear from a loved one so dear just a picture from life's other side the first scene is that of a gambler who had lost all of his money at play and he draws his dead mother's ring from his finger the one that she wore on her wedding day it's his last earthly treasure but he stakes it then he bows his head in shame but when they lifted his head they found out he was dead that's just a picture from life's other side now the last scene is that by the river of a heartbroken mother and babe as the harbor lights shine and they shiver on an outcast whom no one will save and yet she was once a true woman she was somebody's darling and pride God help her, she leaps, but there's no one there to weep it's just a picture from life's other side @SONG: Worried Mind I woke up this morning with a worried mind my eyes were jerkin' round in my head the sky was bleeding, the sun was black the lilies of the valley were obscene twelve screaming birds from a foreign land have come here to memorize me my head cracked, the birds flew in all my sins have come home to roost Jambalaya, crawfish pie, filet gumbo Jody ran off with Yvonne, my ma cher aimee-oh take a tall drink from a jar, act so gay-o the war is over, Johnny's back, back on the bayou I fell from my bed put on my jungle boots to the lunatic mirror I did crawl a pale-eyed stranger was staring at me I could almost recognize him won't you please forgive me all the harm I've done I was bent on violence when I was young beauty comes from violence, beauty's all I crave but you can't get a robin from an eagle's egg Jambalaya, crawfish pie, filet gumbo, oh yeah Jody ran off with Yvonne, my ma cher aimee-oh I take a tall drink from a jar, act so gay-o the war is over, Johnny's back, back on the bayou @SONG: Ballad Of Lonnie Wolf one, two, three ballad of Lonnie Wolf shot himself at the trailer park couple of hours before it got dark he did not die, he's paralyzed can't even wipe the tears from his eyes he was playing harp, a lonesome tune that drove everyone from the room pulled his gun from beneath the pillow he put the barrel up against his temple oh Lonnie, you made a big mistake now he's in the V.A. hospital a victim of life's ancient riddle tried to die but he was codemned to live death's a gift only God can give blink an eye, squeeze a hand life stretches out like the desert sand he got in a hurry, couldn't wait Lonnie's character sealed his fate oh Lonnie, you made a big mistake little girl in the next room she'll be a grown up pretty soon in her heart there's a broken place shattered just like her daddy's face big mistake @SONG: Hope You Don't Mind I think about you every day I hope you don't mind I dream about you every night I hope you don't mind I hope you don't mind I followed you home from school I hope you don't mind I looked in your window last night I hope you don't mind I hope you don't mind I got your picture in my wallet I got your picture on my wall I got your name tattooed on my arm I hope you don't mind I hope you don't mind I'll love you til the end of time 'til rivers, rivers flow upstream my love for you it is not a whisper my love is a scream I hope you don't mind I hope you don't mind @SONG: God Created Woman I crawled across the border just to see your face you destroyed what was familiar I was left in a foreign place I promised you my kingdom and everything I owned I stripped myself stark naked and handed you my skin and bones won't you meet me in the parking lot up on level three there's something I must show you there's something you just gotta see the cotton sheets were stained with sin you took your pleasure there you writhed, I moaned, you cursed, I groaned and dreamed of your long red hair you knew Cain, you knew Abel your sister was a Jezebel your love is no gift from heaven your love is a dog from hell won't you meet me in the parking lot up on level three there's something I must show you there's something you just gotta see let this be a warning to all of you foolish men God created a woman but she's the devil's next of kin won't you meet me in the parking lot up on level three there's something I must show you there's something you just gotta see there's something you just gotta see @SONG: Blood Evidence drove around in my '57 Chevy took the girls down to the levee the facts of life I taught 'em all bought 'em dresses down at the mall Doreen was the latest in a string of fools hair was curly and her eyes were like jewels drive around in my hot-rod car dancing cheek-to-cheek in the local bar Christ @SONG: The Girl Who Made Me Sick when I dream of you I wake up in a sweat our love was a nightmare I'll never ever forget (never forget) you burned all my bridges and you're dancing on my grave please unchain my heart release your love slave some birds like to sing but not my friend the crow what's he got to sing about when desolation is all he knows (all he knows) ain't I just like that bird when all's been done and said you brought me down to earth when you betrayed our marriage bed you have dirty, dirty mind you got a missionary smile it's a strange combination it drove me crazy after a while (after a while) I began to act like a fool I was a raving lunatic if love's a disease you're the one that made me sick @SONG: Greasy Hands my greasy hands devoured her in her liquid eyes I drowned I loved her simple body 'til she turned my head around the neon lights were callin' there was a honky tonk ahead she's wasn't too particular who shared our wedding bed she was like a jar of honey in a world of desperate flies she could not be monogamous she didn't even try she was like her mom I was just like my dad a romance made in heaven a marriage that went bad both of us were guilty both of us have sinned I guess that's just the nature of a woman and a man @SONG: Just Because man loves a woman like the lawn loves the rain woman loves man like morphine loves pain Polly, pretty Polly, would you please be my wife I'm gonna love you for the rest of my life woman loves man, she just naturally does man loves a woman just because Polly, pretty Polly, would you please be my wife I'm gonna love you for the rest of my life you got a name home in the suburbs, boat on the lake true love is one thing you cannot fake Polly, pretty Polly ... blues and the bottle go hand in hand a river of whiskey'll drown an unmarried man Polly, pretty Polly ... time is a present been given to us just live your life kindly and don't make a fuss Polly, pretty Polly ... an ill wind is blowing means no man good don't be mean or evil just do what you should Polly, pretty Polly, would you please be my wife I'm gonna love you for the rest of my life Polly, Polly, Polly @SONG: No Woman's Flesh But Hers three years now she's been in a coma in a hospital in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma I go to visit her three times every week each time I leave I kiss her on the cheek no woman's flesh but hers will I touch no woman's flesh but hers I was drunk that nite I was higher than a kite had my hand down inside her jeans next thing I know, I heard my baby scream no woman's flesh but hers will I touch no woman's flesh but hers the car rolled over three times at least landed on its roof like a wounded beast the medics brought out the jaws of life it took them three hours to free me and my wife no woman's flesh but hers will I touch no woman's flesh but hers three hours not one word was spoken found out later her neck was broken three years she's been in a coma back in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma no woman's flesh but hers will I touch no woman's flesh but hers I go to visit her three times every week and when I leave I kiss her on the cheek I was drunk I was drunk that night no woman's flesh but hers will I touch no woman's flesh but hers no woman's no @SONG: Bad Memories beauty crawls like a hog out of the mud you can't make love without spilling some blood my wrecked eyeballs squint suspiciously from a bad seed comes a crooked tree memories squawk like buzzards in my head they won't fly away 'til they've been fed the preachers cast a real violent curse 'til death do you part for better or worse sorrow is the river on which I sail from the pearly gates through the jaws of hell guilty as charged and sentenced to die no mother to mourn me and no wife to cry like a child that's lost in a forest of trees I've been blinded by love, she's all I can see black is the future like a monkey's eye I can't forget her no matter how I try rags and bones, I'm a casualty all that's left is real bad memories @SONG: Mystery Woman mystery woman please explain why what gives you satisfaction causes me pain are you an alien from Venus or Mars cruising the strip and dancing topless in a girly bar you're up there on the stage dancin' all alone what's a girl like you doing so far from home mystery woman please explain why what gives you satisfaction causes me pain (so much pain) I bet you once were married and very much in love but all good things must come to an end when push, when push comes to shove do you lie awake at night smoking cigarettes if you need a change of scenery I'm just the guy that can help you forget mystery woman please explain why what gives you satisfaction causes me pain (so much pain) no, you're not beautiful and the sky ain't blue who am I kidding I'm desperately in love with you mystery woman (in love with you) please explain why what gives you satisfaction causes me pain mystery woman please explain why what gives you satisfaction causes me pain @SONG: Butcher's Son my Daddy cut meat in a Safeway store was the local butcher but he ain't no more mamma's drinking 'cause Daddy's a drunk sister's out back shooting junk they say I'm too young to know my mind I'm gonna leave this town behind I see my future starting to crumble get out of my way unless you wanna rumble I got a girl lives across the track we're leaving here and wont come back we'll steal a car, hijack a plane call up a taxi or hop a train this whole town's full of hypocrites bankers, lawyers and communists call me trash, my family too to hell with them to hell with you @SONG: Wish I'd Been Honest I wished I'd been honest, considerate and kind I wished I hadn't been so willfully blind locked in a prison without any bars one more victim of the sexual wars I wished I'd been brave like the explorers of old I'd have gone to Antarctica no matter how cold I'd have gone to the Amazon at the drop of a hat oh, I wished I'd been a brave man like that I wish I could change but I'm too disorganized too riddled with guilt, self-pity and lies wish I could have a second chance one more shot at true romance I wish I could say why I did what I did why I ran when I ran, why I hid when I hid wish that I knew what I was so frightened of was it my daddy's anger or my mother's sweet love wish I could eat just beans and rice everyday I'd eat the same meal twice I guess that says somethin' 'bout my psychology maybe that is why my first wife left me