The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #7955   Message #2892395
Posted By: Lighter
22-Apr-10 - 07:43 PM
Thread Name: Origins/Add Versions Shallow Brown
Subject: RE: Origins/Add Versions Shallow Brown
From Davis & Tozer, Third Ed. (1906). The song is not in the First Edition of ca1887, and no copies of the Second (1888) seem to be available.

SHALLOW BROWN

Come get my clothes in order,
Shallow, shallow [sic] Brown
I'm off across the border,
Shallow, shallow [sic] Brown.

My ship will sail to-morrow,...
I'll leave you without sorrow,....

Once you were like a fairy,...
But now are the contrary,....

For you are cross and lazy,...
And soon will drive me crazy,....

The packet sails to-morrow,...
I'll leave you without sorrow,....

Come get my clothes in order,...
I'm off across the border,....