Pore Jud Is Daid

"Pooor Jud Is Daid" is a song written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II for the musical "Oklahoma!".

In this scene, Curly McLain, is visiting the threatening farmhand Jud Fry, who lives in an outbuilding that was once a smokehouse. In a plot to try to get rid of Jud, Curly suggests how the community would honor Jud, should he commit suicide, and how his corpse would look clean and respectable while on display (until they run out of ice). He subtly insults Jud throughout, however Jud doesn't pick up on this.