Alan Jackson - Little Man

I remember walk'in round the court square sidewalk


Lookin' in windows at things I couldn't want


There's johnson's hardware and morgans jewelry


And the ol' Lee king's apothecary


They ware 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





Chorus:





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 stores 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





Chorus:





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





(Instrumental)





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'er killin' the little man


Oh the little man





Chorus:





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 forgoten


about the little man


The little man


Long live the little man


God bless the little man