Little Man

I remember walking round the court 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 district There goes the little man There goes the little man Chorus: Now the court squares'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 Go to Chorus, lead 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 Go to Chorus, It wasn't 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