beyond the pail

[Alice Faber]

Peter A. McGraw wrote:
>--On Friday, March 7, 2003 2:23 PM -0800 Kim & Rima McKinzey
><rkmck at EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
>
>>For me, raised NYC, I took a pail and shovel to the beach, but I
>>certainly knew bucket ("There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear
>>Liza...")
>>
>>There was never a crick - unless it was in your neck.
>
>That's 'cause they ain't no cricks in NYC EXCEPT the kind you get in your
>neck from gawkin' at them skyscrapers.
>

Not only that...I first encountered "God willing and the crick don't
rise" as "Im yirtse hashem and the creek don't rise" (from a friend
born and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC). ("Im yirtse hashem"
being Hebrew for "God willing")

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