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| "Up Went Nelson" | |
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| Song by The Go Lucky Four |
"Up Went Nelson" was a song by The Go Lucky Four (a group of Belfast school teachers: Gerry Burns, Finbar Carolan, John Sullivan and Eamonn 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 of Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.[2][3]
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[edit source]- ↑ "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
- ↑ Usher, Ramona (14 July 2014). "Dublin and its Georgian legacy: The battle for iconoclasm". In Mancini, JoAnne; Bresnahan, Keith (eds.). Architecture and Armed Conflict: The Politics of Destruction. Routledge. p. 123. ISBN 978-0415702508.
- ↑ "Up Went Nelson Lyrics And Chords". Irish folk songs. Retrieved 2024-04-11.
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