"Creek don't rise" (1958?)

[Sam Clements]

1945 if you use [ "lord is willing" creek]  in N'paperarchive.

The eaxct phrase in that instance was "Lord is willing and the creek doesn't
raise."

Sam Clements

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>> "Creek don't rise" was discussed here before, but I don't see it in the
>> Yale
>> Book of Quotations. Google Books doesn't it have it dating back very far.
>> NewspaperArchive goes back only this far(?):
>> ...
>> 17 December 1958, Ada (OK) Evening News, pg. 12.
>> (And I couldn't open up this page -- ed.)
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