Little Man

I remember walkin' 'round the court square sidewalk
 Lookin' in windows at things I couldn't want
 There's Johnson's Hardware and Morgan's Jewelry
 And the ol' Lee King's Apothecary
 They were the little man
 The little man
 I go back now and the stores are empty
 Except for an 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
 Now the court square's just a set of streets
 That the people go round but they seldom think
 'Bout the little man that built this town
 Before the big money shut 'em down
 And killed the little man
 Oh the little man
 He pumped your gas and he cleaned your glass
 And one cold rainy night he fixed your flat
 The new store came where you do it yourself
 You buy a 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 slurpees
 And he wouldn't sell beer
 Now the bank rents the station
 To a man down the road
 And they sell velvet Elvis and second-hand clothes
 There goes little man
 There goes another little man
 Now the court square's just a set of streets
 That the people go 'round but they seldom think
 'Bout the little man that built this town
 Before the big money shut 'em down
 And killed the little man
 Oh the little man
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 Now the stores are lined up in a concrete strip
 You can buy the whole world in just one trip
 And save a penny 'cause it's jumbo size
 They don't even realize
 They're killin' the little man
 Oh the little man
 Now the court square's just a set of streets
 That the people go round but they seldom think
 'Bout the little man that built this town
 Before the big money shut 'em down
 And killed the little man
 Oh the little man
 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