Up Went Nelson

"Up Went Nelson" is a song by The Go Lucky Four (a group of Belfast school teachers Gerry Burns, Finbar Carolan, John Sullivan and Eamonn McGirr) that was number one on the Irish music charts in 1966 for eight consecutive weeks.

It was sung to the tune of "John Brown's Body" and is about the destruction of Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.

Was produced it Belfast by Billy McBurney, who also recorded the men behind the wire. At the start of the song he says, "Up Went Nelson"

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