Pore Jud Is Daid-Cast Recording

[ti:Pore Jud Is Daid] [ar:Cast Recording] [al:Oaklahoma!] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pore Jud Is Daid - Cast Recording [00:03.28]Pore Jud is daid [00:05.18]Pore Jud Fry is daid [00:07.92] [00:08.75]All gather 'round his cawfin now and cry [00:12.40] [00:14.43]He had a heart of gold [00:16.43] [00:17.38]And he wasn't very old [00:20.14] [00:20.75]Oh why did such a feller have to die [00:23.89] [00:27.03]Pore Jud is daid [00:29.27]Pore Jud Fry is daid [00:31.86] [00:33.04]He's lookin' oh so peaceful and serene [00:37.68]And serene [00:39.42]He's all laid out to rest [00:41.47] [00:42.18]With his hands acrost his chest [00:44.71] [00:45.65]His fingernails have never been so clean [00:49.09] [00:51.74]Then the preacher'd get up and he'd say [00:53.52] [00:54.97]Folks we are gathered here to moan [00:57.09]And groan over our brother [00:58.55]Jud Fry who hung hisself up [01:01.21]By a rope in his smokehouse [01:02.53] [01:03.21]Then there'd be weepin' and wailin' from [01:05.87]Some of those women Then he'd say [01:08.58]Jud was the most misunderstood man in [01:10.45]This here territory People used to think [01:12.36]He was a mean ugly feller and they called [01:14.94]Him a dirty skunk and an ornery pig stealer [01:17.04] [01:18.04]But the folks that really knowed him [01:22.41]Knowed that beneath them two dirty shirts he always wore [01:26.65]There beat a heart as big as all outdoors [01:29.59] [01:30.78]As big as all outdoors [01:32.01] [01:32.87]Jud Fry loved his feller man [01:35.15] [01:36.05]He loved hes feller man [01:37.63] [01:39.65]He loved the birds of the air and the beasts of [01:43.56]The field He loved the mice [01:45.98] [01:46.58]And the vermin in the barns and he treated [01:50.36]The rats like equals which was right [01:53.36] [01:54.76]And he loved little children [01:56.17] [01:57.37]He loved everybody and everything in the whole world [02:00.49] [02:01.20]Only he never let on so nobody ever knowed it [02:05.18] [02:06.01]Pore Jud is Daid [02:08.50]Pore Jud Fry is daid [02:11.13] [02:12.28]His friends'll weep and wail for miles around [02:15.97]Miles Around [02:17.13] [02:18.33]The daisies in the dell [02:20.13] [02:21.26]Will give out a different smell [02:23.42] [02:24.73]Because Pore Jud is underneath the ground [02:28.26] [02:31.66]Pore Jud is daid [02:33.54] [02:34.18]A Candle lights his haid [02:36.51] [02:37.56]He's layin' in a cawfin made of wood [02:40.77] [02:42.79]Wood [02:43.18] [02:44.00]And folks are feelin' sad [02:45.74] [02:46.28]'Cause they useter treat him bad [02:48.66] [02:50.38]But now they know their friend is gone for good [02:53.64] [02:54.96]Good [02:55.65] [02:56.99]Pore Jud is Daid a candle lights his haid [03:02.84] [03:04.09]He's lookin' oh so purty and so nice [03:07.77] [03:10.59]He looks like he's asleep [03:12.70] [03:13.42]It's a shame that he won't keep [03:16.13] [03:17.34]But it's summer and we're running out of ice [03:21.44] [03:24.95]Pore Jud Pore Jud