Belfast Child

"Belfast Child [Ballad of the Streets]"
Single by Simple Minds
from the album Street Fighting Years
B-side	"Mandela Day" "Biko"
Released	6 February 1989 (1989-02-06)
Genre	Progressive folk[1]
Length	6:39
Label	Virgin
Songwriter(s)	Music: traditional Lyrics: Simple Minds (Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill and Mick MacNeil)
Producer(s)	Trevor Horn, Stephen Lipson
Simple Minds singles chronology
"Don't You (Forget About Me)" (1988) "Belfast Child [Ballad of the Streets]" (1989) "This Is Your Land" (1989)

"Belfast Child" is a 1989 song by Scottish band Simple Minds and is the leading single from their eighth studio album Street Fighting Years. It went to number 1 in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Ireland and also went to the top ten in New Zealand, Belgium, Greece, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Italy and Spain.

Track listings

7" vinyl

* UK, Germany: Virgin / SMX 3

• France: Virgin / 90496

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Belfast Child"	6:39

Side two
No.	Title	Length
2.	"Mandela Day"	5:42

12" vinyl

* UK: Virgin / SMXT 3

• UK: Virgin / SMX BS (limited edition box set, including 4 black-and-white photographs from the music video)
• France: Virgin / 80432
• Germany: Virgin / 611 998
• Yugoslavia: Jugoton /MXSVIRG 18016

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Belfast Child"	6:39

Side two
No.	Title	Length
2.	"Mandela Day"	5:42
3.	"Biko"	7:31

CD

* UK: Virgin / SMXCD3 (3")

• UK: Virgin / SMXCDT3 (5")

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Belfast Child"	6:39
2.	"Mandela Day"	5:42
3.	"Biko"	7:31

References

1. McAlphine, Fraser (20 November 2017). "10 British chart-toppers that no one talks about anymore". BBC. Retrieved 2 October 2018.