Pore Jud Is Daid

Pooor Jud is Daid is a song from the light opera Oklahoma!.

In this scene, the hero of the musical, Curly McLain, is visiting the threatening farmhand Jud Fry, who lives in an outbuilding that was once a smokehouse. 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), while insulting Jud all the time, though Jud doesn't pick up on this.

Curly sings:
"Poor Jud is daid, "
A candle lights his haid...

With the deep voiced Jud later joining in the song.