I remember walking round the courthouse square sidewalks
Looking in windows at things I couldn't want...
There's Johnson's Hardware, and Morton's Jewelry...
And the Old E King...and the pots they carried...
They're the little man... The little man...
I go back now... the stores are empty...
'Cept an old Coke sign dated 1950...
Boarded up like they never existed...
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
People go round but they seldom think...
About the little man that built this town...
Before the big money shut'em down...
And killed the little man...offed the little man.
He pumped your gas, and he'd clean your glass...
One cold rainy night... he fixed your flat...
A 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...
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 Elvises and second hand clothes.
There goes the little man...There goes another little man...
Now the court square's just a set of streets
People go round but they seldom think...
About the little man that built this town...
Before the big money shut'em down...
And killed the little man...offed the little man.
Now the stores are lined up in a concrete strip.
You can buy the whole world in just one trip...
Save a penny cause it's jumbo size...
They don't even realize...
They're killing the little man...Offed the little man.
Now the court square's just a set of streets
People go round but they seldom think...
About the little man that built this town...
Before the big money shut'em down...
And killed the little man...offed the little man.
It wasnt long ago when I was a child...
An old black man came with his mule and 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.
