Dear wwh, Excuse me for being late but when I finally remembered all the memories pertinent to your question the freight train that is this forum had answered your question in it's own fashion and moved on to other amusements on other tracks. Now my own comments seem dated and trite.
Big deal. I say -So What! So here goes...
Back in the sixties any cornbred child of the deep south would immediately know the meaning of the word "study" as used in the negro spiritual titled above.
STUDY = to worry about or to concern oneself with, as in...
Bubba: Paw, Junior done stole a dog dat hain't his'n.
Paw: Hush yo mouf, Bubba, I ain't studin' no Junior. We's got corn to pick.
Everybody in Alabama knows that there is no war in Heaven thank you.
