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| "Up Went Nelson" | |
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| Song by The Go Lucky Four |
"Up Went Nelson" was a song byThe Go Lucky Four (a group ofBelfast school teachers: Gerry Burns, Finbar Carolan,John Sullivan andEamonn McGirr, managed at the time by Gerry Crean). It reached No.1 in the Irish charts where it remained for 10 weeks.[1]
It was sung to the tune of "John Brown's Body" and is about the destruction on 8 March 1966 ofNelson's Pillar inDublin.[2][3]
