Mcconville’S

"McConnville's" is a song by James Keelaghan. It is track #5 from the album House of Cards that was released in 2009. Duration of this track is 05: 24
 I work down at McConville's, it's the pub behind the square
 If ever you're in Portadown, anyone can point you there
 We have lagers ales and porters, but the thing that brings them in
 Is the whiskey that McConville brews that where this all begins
 IN all the years I've worked there and for fifty years before
 Not a bottle of the sweet stuff ever walked outside the door
 Cause McConville laid the rule down, it was honoured till today
 Drink your fill while at the bar, but the bottle has to stay
 Six or seven years ago when young Jimmy first came by
 He was looking for a local, we were the third place that he'd tried
 Her looked around, no ferns..., no telly blaring from the bar
 And once he tried the whiskey he never strayed too far
 He'd come in after dinner for an hour maybe more
 Play some cards and talk and joke, 'cause that's what a local's for
 Before he'd leave most nights, because the bottles had to stay
 He'd ask me for a whiskey just to see him on his way
 Three days ago his mate come in, he said Jimmy took a fall
 From a roof that he was working on, he had no chance at all
 And today after the funeral, after burying young Jim
 They came here to his second home, the mourners crowded in
 Then I did a thing I never thought I'd do 'til it was done
 I took a bottle from the shelf, I held it up for everyone
 Rules are made for breaking, tonight the whisky leaves the bar
 An auction for the family, who'll give me £50 to start
 At £500 the bidding stopped, yes, you couldn't hear a sound
 But for the roar as Jimmy's mates stepped up and laid their pay packs down
 And I can't believe I did it, never thought I'd see the day
 That I'd hand someone the bottle and then watch it walk away
 As I was heading home tonight I passed the grave yard by
 I sure that I heard singing and silhouetted on the sky
 Were Jimmy's friends and they were pouring something on his grave
 A little offering for young Jim to help him on his way