I remember walk'in round walkin' 'round theenter deleted
court square sidewalk
Lookin' in windows at things I couldn't want
There's johnson's Johnson's hardware and morgans Morgan's jewelry
And the ol' old Lee king's King's apothecary
They ware the little man
The man, the little man

I go back now and the stores are all empty
Except for an old coke sign from dated 1950
Boarded up like they never existed
Or renovated and called historic districts
There goes the little man
There man, there goes the little man

Now the court square's just a set of streets
That the people go round but they seldom think
Bout'Bout the little man that built this town
Before the big money shut em them down
And killed the little man
Oh man, oh the little man

He pumped your gas and he cleaned your glass
And one cold rainy night night, he fixed your flat
The new stores came where you do it yourself
You buy a lotto ticket and food off the shelf
Forget about the little man
Forget man, forget about that little man

He hung on there for a few more years
But heHe couldn't sell slurpees
And Slurpees, he wouldn't sell beer
Now the bank rents the station
To to a man down the road
And they sell velvet Elvis and
Second-hand second-hand clothes
There goes little man
There man, there goes another little man

Now the court square's just a set of streets
That the people go 'round but they seldom think
'Bout the little man that built this town
Before the big money shut them down
And killed the little man, oh the little man

Now the stores are lined up in a concrete strip
You can buy the whole world with in just one trip
And save a penny cause 'cause it's jumbo size
They don't even realize
They'erThey're killin' the little man, oh the little man
Oh
And the court square's just a set of streets
That the people go 'round but they seldom think
'Bout the little man that built this town
Before the big money shut them 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 forgot about forgotten
About the little man
The man, the little man
Long live the little man
God bless the little man