{{More citations needed|date=February 2024}}{{Infobox song | name = Up Went Nelson | artist = The Go Lucky Four | type =Song | composer = | language = }} "'''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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Irish Charts - All there is to know |url=http://irishcharts.ie/ |access-date=2024-12-03 |website=irishcharts.ie}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite book |author-last= Usher |author-first= Ramona | authorlink= | editor-last1= Mancini |editor-first1= JoAnne | editor-last2= Bresnahan |editor-first2= Keith |title= Architecture and Armed Conflict: The Politics of Destruction |publisher= Routledge |date= 14 July 2014 |page=123 |chapter= Dublin and its Georgian legacy: The battle for iconoclasm | isbn=978-0415702508 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Up Went Nelson Lyrics And Chords |url=https://www.irish-folk-songs.com/up-went-nelson-lyrics-and-chords.html |access-date=2024-04-11 |website=Irish folk songs |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== * Nelson's Farewell
== References == <references /> Category:Irish folk songs Category:1966 songs Category:Songs with unknown songwriters {{Folk-song-stub}}