"I ain't stud'n you," is a down home expression, which, depending on its use in a given context, might mean "I am not thinking about you," or literally, "I am not studying you."
Our late, maternal, great-aunt Dedove Merriweather had said it often, as had her peers in Canton, Mississippi, where I was born.
Years later, blues singer , Bobby Rush had a big hit by that name: "I ain't stud'n you," replete with fancy dancing girls as he performed live.
That thought occurred to me today, as I read many news accounts of the latest tweets, barbs, charges in the saga of the President Donald Trump incumbency: "I ain't stud'n you!" But, how can I not, dare I not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q_pdutDQPs
Friday, January 5, 2018
I AIN'T STUDYING YOU
"I ain't stud'n you," is a down home expression, which, depending on its use in a given context, might mean "I am not thinking about you," or literally, "I am not studying you."
Our late, maternal, great-aunt Dedove Merriweather had said it often, as had her peers in Canton, Mississippi, where I was born.
Years later, blues singer , Bobby Rush had a big hit by that name: "I ain't stud'n you," replete with fancy dancing girls as he performed live.
That thought occurred to me today, as I read many news accounts of the latest tweets, barbs, charges in the saga of the President Donald Trump incumbency: "I ain't stud'n you!" But, how can I not, dare I not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q_pdutDQPs