My favourite version of the Geordie song "Dance to thy Daddy" was by the late Jake Thackery -- it begins

Come here me little Jacky
Noo Aa've smoked me baccy
Let's hev a bit o' crackie
Till the boat comes in."

In the North east of England 'crack' means 'talk.' All you budding etymologists might want to remember that language was SPOKEN long before it was ever written down and the spelling of words is for the most part, well, bollocks / bollox / bollux.