Misc Musicals – Oklahoma - Pore Jud Is Daid (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
E
Pore Jud is daid

     Gm  G#
Pore Jud Fry is daid

     C#m               F#             B
All gather 'round his coffin now and cry

    E
He had a heart of gold

    F#m
And he wasn't very old

  B                             E
Oh why did such a feller have to die?
[Verse 2]
E
Pore Jud is daid

      Gm  G#
Pore Jud Fry is daid

       C#           F#                B
He's lookin' oh so peaceful and serene—

E                     C
He's all laid out to rest

           A                F
With his hands acrost his chest

     F#                              E
His fingernails have never been so clean
[Bridge] 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

F                                     C
Who hung hisself up by a rope in the smoke house’
N.C. Then there’d be weeping and wailing N.C From some of them women N.C. And he’d say
G                                            E
Jud was the most misunderstood man in the territory

     B
And people used to think he was a mean ugly feller

B
And they called him a dirty skunk

                    F
And an ornery pig stealer

                                A#
But the folks who really knowed him
N.C. Knew that beneath them two dirty shirts he always wore
C                                     F
There beat a heart as big as all our doors

C                  F
As big as all outdoors

C                         F
Jud Fry loved his fellow man

C                   F
He loved his fellow man

    G#
He loved the birds of the forest

    C#
And the beasts of the field

F#                     D#m
He loved the mice and vermin in the barn

G#m                           A#m B C#
And he treated the rats like equals

B            F
Which was right

E         F#
And he loved little children

F#m
He loved everybody and everything in the world

E
Only he never let on so nobody ever noticed
[Verse 3]
E
Pore Jud is daid

      Gm G#
Pore Jud Fry is daid

C#m                  F#                  B
His friends'll weep and wail fer miles around

E                   G
The daisies in the dell

           A               F
Will give out a different smell

         B             E
Because Pore Jud is underneath the ground
[Verse 4]
E
Pore Jud is daid

     Gm  G#
A candle lights his head

     C#m          F#             B
He's layin' in a coffin made of wood

E                      G#
And folks are feelin' sad

            A       A#m
Cause they use to treat him bad

     B                                      E
And now they know their friend is gone for good
[Verse 5]
E
Pore Jud is daid

    Gm    G#
A candle lights his haid

      C#m           F#           B
He's lookin' oh so purty and so nice

    E                G#
He looks like he's asleep

        A                  A#m
It's a shame that he won't keep

         B                                E
But it's summer and we're running out of ice
[Ending]
C#m   A    B    E
Pore Jud, Pore Jud