Written by: Alan Jackson
# Debut Chart
3 May '99 Country
39 Jul '99 Hot 100

I remember walking round
The court square sidewalks
Looking in windows
At things I couldn't want

There's Johnson's hardware
And Morgan's jewelry
And the old Lee King's
Apothecary

They were the little man
The little man

I go back now and
The stores are empty
Except an old c__e sign
Dated 1950

Boarded up
Like they never existed
Or renovated and called
Historic districts

There goes the little man
There goes the little man

[CHORUS]
Now the court square's
Just a set of streets
That the 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
Oh, the little man

He pumped your gas
And he cleaned your glass
And one cold rainy night
He fixed your flat

The new store came
Where you do it yourself
You buy a lotto ticket
Ad 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 Slurpees
And he wouldn't sell beer

Now the bank rents the station
To a man down the road
And they sell velvet Elvis
And second-hand clothes

There goes the little man
There goes another little man

[repeat CHORUS]

Now they are lined up
In a concrete strip
You can buy the whole world
In just one trip

And save a penny
Cause it's jumbo size
They don't even realize

They're killing the little man
Oh, the little man

[repeat CHORUS]

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
Long live the little man
God bless the little man

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