Here's a question which has been bothering me for years. I knew of two songs that refer to a person named Shallow Brown: Go to Sea Once More -- "As I was walking down the street I met with Shallow Brown/I asked him if he would take me on, he looked at me with a frown," and Hullabaloo Belay -- "One day when me father was out of town/Me mother ran off with Shallo Brown." Two references makes it likely, in my mind, that this person really existed. His character seems not to have been of the best. Just for giggles, I looked in the lyric database, and lo! and behold! Shallow Brown has a song all of his own, although he seems to have changed gender. Wonderful what can happen on the Mudcat. I figure this forum is the place to find out, if there's any place in the world. Can anyone help? This has been bugging me in a quietly desperate way for many years now, and I never thought I'd get an answer.