C I remember walkin' round the court square G sidewalks
L F ookin' in windows at things I couldn't want
C There's Johnson's Hardware and Morman's Jewelr G y
F And the old Lee Kings apothacary
They were the little m C an The l F ittle man C F
C I go back now the stores a G re empty
F except and old coke sign dated 1950
C Boarded up like they never exi G sted
or r F enovated and called historic districts
There goes the little m C an the F re goes the little man C F
Chorus:
Now the court Am square's just a set of stre F ets
C that people go round but the seldom think G
bout' the littl Am e man that built F this town
bef C ore the big money shut um' G down
and killed the little C man ah, F the little man C F
C He pumped your gas and he'd clean your glass G
F One cold rainy night he fixed your flat
C The new store came where you do it yourself G
You buy lotto F ticket and food off the shelf
forget the litt C le man f F orget about that little man C
C He hung on there for a few more y G ears
F but he couldn't sell slurpies and he wouldn't sell beer
C Now the bank rents the station to a man down the ro G ad
an F d they sell velvet Elvis and 2nd hand clothes
F there goes the little man there goes another little man
Repeat Chorus:
C Now store's lined up in a concrete G strip
F You buy the whole world in just one trip
C You save a penny cause it's jumbo size G
F and they don't ever realize
their killin' the litt C le man F ah, the little C man F
Repeat Chorus:
C It wasn't long ago when I was a ch G ild
F an old black man came with his mule and his plow
C He broke the ground where we grew our garden G
F back before we'd all forgotten
about F the little man the little man long live the little man
God Bless the little ma C n
Alan Jackson
