Alan Jackson

The Little Man

I remember walkin' round the court square sidewalks
Lookin' in windows at things I couldn't want
There's Johnson's Hardware and Morman's Jewelry
And the old Lee Kings apothacary
They were the little man The little man
I go back now the stores are empty
except and old coke sign dated 1950
Boarded up like they never existed
or renovated and called historic districts
There goes the little man there goes the little man
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Now the court square's just a set of streets
that people go round but the seldom think
bout' the little man that built this town
before the big money shut um' down
and killed the little man ah, the little man
He pumped your gas and he'd clean your glass
One cold rainy night he fixed your flat
The new store came where you do it yourself
You buy lotto ticket and food off the shelf
forget the little man forget about that little man
He hung on there for a few more years
but he couldn't sell slurpies and he wouldn't sell beer
Now the bank rents the station to a man down the road
and they sell velvet Elvis and 2nd hand clothes
there goes the little man there goes another little man
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Now store's lined up in a concrete strip
You buy the whole world in just one trip
You save a penny cause it's jumbo size
and they don't ever realize
their killin' the little man ah, the little man
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It wasn't long ago when I was a child
an old black man came with his mule and his plow
He broke the ground where we grew our garden
back before we'd all forgotten
about the little man the little man long live the little man
God Bless the little man