[00:09.46]I remember walk'in round the court square sidewalk
[00:13.70]Lookin' in windows at things I couldn't want
[00:18.37]There's johnson's hardware and morgans jewelry
[00:20.89]And the ol' Lee king's apothecary
[00:25.16]They ware the little man
[00:28.89]The little man
[00:34.39]I go back now and the stores are all empty
[00:37.75]Except for an old coke sign from 1950
[00:42.50]Boarded up like they never existed
[00:44.01]Or renovated and called historic districts
[00:48.68]There goes the little man
[00:53.09]There goes the little man
[00:57.57]Now the court square's just a set of streets
[01:01.83]That the people go round but they seldom think
[01:05.46]Bout the little man that built this town
[01:09.83]Before the big money shut em down
[01:13.57]And killed the little man
[01:17.47]Oh the little man
[01:18.42]He pumped your gas and he cleaned your glass
[01:24.57]And one cold rainy night he fixed your flat
[01:28.61]The new stores came where you do it yourself
[01:32.52]You buy a lotto ticket and food off the shelf
[01:37.60]Forget about the little man
[01:40.84]Forget about that little man
[01:41.89]He hung on there for a few more years
[01:48.47]But he couldn't sell slurpees
[01:50.79]And he wouldn't sell beer
[01:52.79]Now the bank rents the station
[01:55.78]To a down the road
[01:58.37]And sell velvet Elvis and
[01:59.88]Second-hand clothes
[02:00.37]There goes little man
[02:04.82]There goes another little man
[02:09.54]Now the are lined up in a concrete strip
[02:11.99]You can buy the world with just one trip
[02:20.18]And save a penny cause it's jumbo size
[02:27.32]They don't even realize
[02:28.43]They'er killin' the little man
[02:29.73]Oh the little man
[02:31.17]It wasn't long when I was a child
[02:55.76]An old black man came with his plow
[03:26.26]He broke the ground where we grew our garden
[03:28.29]Back before we'd all forgot about the little man
[03:30.14]The little man
[03:30.81]Long live the little man
[03:31.92]God bless the little man