Little Man

Alan Jackson

I remember walkin' 'round the court

Square sidewalks

Lookin' in the windows at things

I couldn't want

There's Johnson's hardware and

Morgan's Jewelry and the ol' Lee

Kings Apothecary

They were the little man,

The little man

I go back now and the stores are empty

Except an old coke sign dated 1950

Boarded up like they never existed

Or renovated and called

historic district,

There goes the little man

There goes the little man

(Chorus)

Now the court square's just a

set of streets

That 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 pump your gas and

He cleaned your glass

Andone 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 the 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 the little man

There goes another little man

(Chorus)

Now the stores are lined up

In a correct strip

You can buy the whole world

In just one trip

And save apenny 'cause it's jumbo size

They don't even realize

They're killin' the little man

Oh, the little man

(Chorus)

It's wasn't long ago when I was

A chil

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

The little man

Long live the little man

God bless the little man