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 "title": "Dat Gal o’ Mine",
 "poet": "James Weldon Johnson",
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 "book": "Fifty Years & Other Poems",
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  "year": 1917,
  "venue": "Fifty Years & Other Poems (1917)",
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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  [
   {
    "text": "Skin as black an’ jes as sof’ as a velvet dress,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Teeth as white as ivory⁠—well dey is I guess.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Eyes dat’s jes as big an’ bright as de evenin’ star;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "An’ dat hol’ some sort o’ light lublier by far.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Hair don’t hang ’way down her back; plaited up in rows;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wid de two en’s dat’s behin’ tied wid ribben bows.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Han’s dat raly wuz’n made fu’ hard work, I’m sho’;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Got a little bit o’ foot; weahs a numbah fo’.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "You jes oughtah see dat gal Sunday’s w’en she goes",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To de Baptis’ meetin’ house, dressed in her bes’ clo’es.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "W’en she puts her w’ite dress on an’ othah things so fine;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Now, Su’, don’t you know I’m proud o’ dat gal o’ mine.",
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