"The Ballad of Go Go Brown" is a song by the British new wave and synth-pop band Heaven 17, released on 15 August 1988 as the lead single from their fifth studio album, Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho.

"[3][4] Upon its release, Adam Blake of Music Week wrote, "Certainly blues harp and rock 'n' roll bass lines are hardly what one associates with Heaven 17, but with its hard-edged lyric about a teenaged drug-pusher and its admirably uncluttered arrangement, 'Go Go Brown' deserves attention.

"[5] Andrew Hirst of the Huddersfield Daily Examiner considered it to be a "rocky country ballad complete with quivering guitar twangs and doleful harmonica".

[6] William Shaw of Smash Hits criticised the band for dropping their original sound and "trying to pretend to be some ancient old 'rhythm and blues' group".

"[7] In a retrospective review of Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho, Aaron Badgley of AllMusic commented, "Worth the price of the album is the out of character country-tinged 'The Ballad of Go Go Brown.'