Rodgers And Hammerstein - Pore Jud Is Daid lyrics
rate me[Gordon]<br />
Pore Jud is daid,<br />
Pore Jud Fry is daid,<br />
All gether round his cawfin now and cry.<br />
He had a heart of gold<br />
And he wasn't very old~<br />
Oh, why did such a feller have to die?<br />
Pore Jud is daid,<br />
Pore Jud Fry is daid.<br />
He's lookin', oh so peaceful and serene~<br />
<br />
[Rod]<br />
And serene!<br />
<br />
[Gordon]<br />
He's all laid out to rest<br />
With his hands acrost his chest.<br />
His finger nails have never b'en so clean.<br />
<br />
[Gordon]<br />
[speaking]<br />
Nen the preacher'd git up and he'd say: "Folks! We are gethered here to<br />
Moan and groan over our brother Jud Fry, who hung hisse'f up by a rope in the smokehouse."<br />
Nen there'd be weepin' and wailin' from some of those womern.<br />
Nen he'd say, "Jud was the most misunderstood man in the territory. People useter think he was a mean, ugly feller,<br />
And they called him a dirty skunk and a ornery pig-stealer.<br />
<br />
[Gordon]<br />
[Singing]<br />
But the folks 'at really knowed him,<br />
Knowed 'at beneath them two dirty shirts he alw'ys wore,<br />
There beat a heart as big as all outdoors."<br />
<br />
[Rod]<br />
As big as all outdoors.<br />
<br />
[Gordon]<br />
Jud Fry loved his fellow man.<br />
<br />
[Rod]<br />
He loved his fellow man.<br />
<br />
[Gordon]<br />
[Speaking with the impassioned infections of an evangelist]<br />
He loved the birds of the forest and the beasts of the field,<br />
He loved the mice and the vermin in the barn,<br />
And he treated the rats like equals~which he was right.<br />
And he loved little children.<br />
He loved ev'ybody and ev'ythin' in the world...<br />
On'y he never let on, so nobody ever knowed it!<br />
<br />
[Gordon]<br />
[Singing]<br />
Pore Jud is daid,<br />
Pore Jud Fry is daid,<br />
His friends'll weep and wail fer miles around.<br />
<br />
[Rod]<br />
Miles around.<br />
<br />
[Gordon]<br />
The daisies in the dell<br />
Will give out a diff'runt smell<br />
Becuz pore Jud is underneath the ground.<br />
<br />
[Rod]<br />
Pore Jud is daid,<br />
A candle lights his haid,<br />
He's layin' in a cawfin made of wood.<br />
<br />
[Gordon]<br />
Wood.<br />
<br />
[Rod]<br />
And folks are feelin' sad<br />
Cuz they useter to treat him bad,<br />
And now they know their friend has gone fer good.<br />
<br />
[Gordon]<br />
Good.<br />
<br />
[Rod And Gordon]<br />
Pore Jud is daid,<br />
A candle lights his haid~<br />
<br />
[Gordon]<br />
He's lookin', oh, so purty and so nice!<br />
He looks like he's asleep.<br />
It's a shame that he won't keep,<br />
But it's summer and we're runnin' out of ice...<br />
Pore Jud~pore Jud
