Interesting Facts about the Shiloh Brown
Stan Hugill says “Shiloh Brown” is the link between “Shallow Brown” and “Tom’s Gone To Hilo”. These two stanzas of this beautiful song come from “Fenceless Meadows Tales Of The Sea” by Bill Adams (1923). At first, looks like “Shallow Brown”, but actually according to Stan Hugill is a variant of “Tom’s Gone To Hilo”.
Because both songs which the “Shiloh Brown” link, are halyard songs, I will reconstruct this song as a halyard shanty. The music used in my reconstruction is the conjunction of music from mentioned linked shanties and the halyard tempo used to it.
The source of this sea shanty
The music: notation or record doesn’t exist.
The lyrics: “Fenceless Meadows Tales Of The Sea” by Bill Adams (1923 page 86).
Mentioned in: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” by Stan Hugill (1st ed: p 260, 261).
The Record of Shiloh Brown
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The full lyrics
Shiloh Brown
Oh Johnny’s gone, what shall I do?
– Shil-loh, Shil-loh Brown.
Oh Johnny’s gone, what shall I do?
– Johnny’s gone to Rio
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Where Johnny goes, I must go too,
– Shil-loh, Shil-loh Brown.
Where Johnny goes, I must go too,
– Johnny’s gone to Rio