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Little Man Lyrics By Alan Jackson

    i remember walkin’ ’round the court square sidewalks
    looking in windows at things i couldn’t want
    there’s johnson’s hardware and morgan’s jewelry
    and the old 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 950
    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
    about the little man that built this town
    before the big money shut them 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
    secondhand 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
    about the little man that built this town
    before the big money shut them down
    and killed the little man
    oh the little man

    now the stores are lined up in a concrete strip
    you can buy the whole world in just one trip
    and save a penny because it’s jumbo size
    they don’t even realize
    they’re killing 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
    about the little man that built this town
    before the big money shut them down
    and killed the little man
    oh the little man

    4
    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

    Artist: Alan Jackson

    Year: 1999

    Decade: 90s

    Language: en

    Word Count: 211