Misc Musicals - Oklahoma - pore jud is daid

^EPore Jud is daid Pore ^GmJud ^G#Fry is daid All g^C#mather 'round his c^F#offin now and c^Bry He h^Ead a heart of gold And ^F#mhe wasn't very old Oh^B why did such a feller have to^E die?

^EPore Jud is daid Pore J^Gmud F^G#ry is daid He's lo^C#okin' oh so p^F#eaceful and serene^B— ^EHe's all laid out to r^Cest With his ha^Ands acrost his ch^Fest His f^F#ingernails have never been so cl^Eean

N.C.

And then the preacher’d get up and say ^Am‘Folks, we are gathered here to moan and groan over our brother, Jud Fry ^FWho hung hisself up by a rope in the s^Cmoke house’

N.C.

Then there’d be weeping and wailing

N.C

From some of them women

N.C.

And he’d say ^GJud was the most misunderstood man in the ter^Eritory And p^Beople used to think he was a mean ugly feller ^BAnd they called him a dirty skunk And an ornery pig st^Fealer But the folks who really knowed ^A#him

N.C.

Knew that beneath them two dirty shirts he always wore ^CThere beat a heart as big as all our d^Foors ^CAs big as all outdo^Fors ^CJud Fry loved his fellow m^Fan ^CHe loved his fellow ^Fman He l^G#oved the birds of the forest And ^C#the beasts of the field ^F#He loved the mice and v^D#mermin in the barn ^G#mAnd he treated the rats like e^A#mqual^Bs ^{C# B}Which was rig^Fht ^EAnd he lov^F#ed little children ^F#mHe loved everybody and everything in the world ^EOnly he never let on so nobody ever noticed

^EPore Jud is daid Pore J^Gmud ^G#Fry is daid ^C#mHis friends'll weep a^F#nd wail fer miles ar^Bound ^EThe daisies in the d^Gell Will give o^Aut a different s^Fmell Because P^Bore Jud is und^Eerneath the ground

^EPore Jud is daid A can^Gmdle ^G#lights his head He's ^C#mlayin' in a c^F#offin made of w^Bood ^EAnd folks are feelin' s^G#ad Cause they u^Ase to tr^A#meat him bad And n^Bow they know their friend is gone for g^Eood

^EPore Jud is daid A ca^Gmndle l^G#ights his haid He's l^C#mookin' oh so p^F#urty and so n^Bice He l^Eooks like he's as^G#leep It's a s^Ahame that he won't ^A#mkeep But it's ^Bsummer and we're running out of i^Ece

^C#mPore J^Aud, P^Bore J^Eud