Alan Jackson - Little Man Lyrics

I remember walkin' 'round the Court Square sidewalks
Lookin' in windows at things I couldn't want
There's Johnson's Hardware and Morgans Jewelery
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 him down
And killed the little man
Oh, the little man

He pumped your gas and he cleaned your glass
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

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 him 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 'cause it's jumbo size
And they don't even realize
They're killin' the little man
Oh, the little man

And 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 him 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 plough
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