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 "title": "You’s Sweet to Yo’ Mammy Jes de Same",
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 "poet": "James Weldon Johnson",
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  "year": 1917,
  "venue": "Fifty Years & Other Poems (1917)",
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   {
    "text": "Shet yo’ eyes, ma little pickaninny, go to sleep",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Mammy’s watchin’ by you all de w’ile;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Daddy is a-wukin’ down in de cott’n fiel’,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Wukin’ fu’ his little honey child.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "An’ yo’ mammy’s heart is jes a-brimmin’ full o’ lub",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Fu’ you f’om yo’ head down to yo’ feet;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Oh, no mattah w’at some othah folks may t’ink o’ you,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "To yo’ mammy’s heart you’s mighty sweet.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "You’s sweet to yo’ mammy jes de same;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dat’s why she calls you Honey fu’ yo’ name.",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Yo’ face is black, dat’s true,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "An’ yo’ hair is woolly, too,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But, you’s sweet to yo’ mammy jes de same.",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Up der in de big house w’ere dey lib so rich an’ gran’",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dey’s got chillen dat dey lubs, I s’pose;",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Chillen dat is purty, oh, but dey can’t lub dem mo’",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dan yo’ mammy lubs you, heaben knows!",
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   }
  ],
  [
   {
    "text": "Dey may t’ink you’s homely, an’ yo’ clo’es dey may be po’,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "But yo’ shinin’ eyes, dey hol’s a light",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Dat, my Honey, w’en you opens dem so big an’ roun’,",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Makes you lubly in yo’ mammy’s sight.",
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