Little Man

Song Little Man
Artist Alan Jackson
Album Greatest Hits Volume II

Lyrics

[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