Query: Creek don't rise

[sagehen]

 "Good Lord willin' an' the Creek don't rise."
>
>    Before I tell my colleague that I can provide no additional
>information, I thought I'd run the query by ads-l once more. So,
>might anyone have any idea about which 19th century political figure
>first used the expression?
>
>---Gerald Cohen

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 More'n likely Andrew Jackson, according to my informant.
A. Murie

A&M Murie
N. Bangor NY
sagehen at westelcom.com