I re mem
ber walking
round the court square sidewalks
Looking in windows at
things I couldn't want
Miss Johnson's hardware
and Morgan's jewelry
And the old E. King's, the pot for Kerry
They were the little men
The little man
I go back now and stores are empty
Except an old coat signed in the 1950s
Boarded up like they never existed
Renovated and called historic districts
There goes the little man
Now the court square is
just a set of streets
That people go around,
but they sell a thing
About the little man that built this town
Before the big money shut him down
Thank you, the little man
Oh, the little man
You pumped your gas and
he cleaned your glass
One cold rainy night he fixed your flat
A new store came where
you'd do it yourself
If buy a lotto ticket, 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 surplus
And he wouldn't sell beer
Now the bank rents the station
To a man down the road
And they sell velvet pelvis
And second -hand clothes
Yes, there goes the little man
There goes the money little man
Now the court square's
just a set of streets
The people go around but
they sell a thing
About the little man that built this town
Before the big money shut him down
And you're the little man
Now the stores are lined up
in a concrete strip
You can buy the whole world
with just one trip
Save a penny, cos it's jumbo size
And they don't even realize
They're killing the little man
All the little man
Now the court square's
just a set of streets
The people go around,
but they seldom think
About 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 plow
He broke the ground where
we grew our garden
Back before we'd all forgotten
About the little man, the little man
The little man, the live the little man
God bless the little man
You