Pore Jud Is Daid

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"Pore Jud Is Daid" is a darkly comic song from the musical *Oklahoma!* in which Curly McLain sardonically imagines the community’s exaggerated mourning of the farmhand Jud Fry after his hypothetical death.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf musical theatre song
show tune
song
characterAddressed Jud Fry
characterSinging Curly McLain
composer Richard Rodgers
fictionalContext sardonic fantasy of Jud Fry’s funeral
firstAppearance Oklahoma! (1943 Broadway musical)
genre musical theatre
show tune
includedIn Oklahoma! 1955 film adaptation
Oklahoma! original Broadway production
language English
lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II
medium film musical
stage musical
musicalBy Rodgers and Hammerstein
narrativeFunction explores Curly McLain’s antagonistic relationship with Jud Fry
foreshadows Jud Fry’s death
notableFeature contrasts mournful musical style with comic, morbid lyrics
partOf Oklahoma!
Oklahoma! (musical)
performedByCharacter Curly McLain
relationshipToCharacter expresses Curly’s hostility toward Jud Fry
setting rural Oklahoma territory
sungInAct Act I of Oklahoma!
thematicElement death
jealousy
mock eulogy
social hypocrisy
violence
tone black comedy
dark comedy
workBasedOn Green Grow the Lilacs
yearIntroduced 1943

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Curly McLain
singsSong

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