When I was in Hebrew school, we put on a musical version of that story and did a performance at the local nursing home. As my mom describes it, it was surreal watching a bunch of chipper 3rd graders singing "It could be worse, it could be worse" to people for whom it really couldn't.

This is what popped up directly below it in my feed. @halachicleft.org

I mean it is mid-century - just a different century.

Thank you for standing up and being there!

As I recall, the old Soncino translation euphemistically translated it as "waist."