I remember walk'in round the court square sidewalk
Lookin' in windows at things I couldn't want

There's johnson's hardware and morgans jewelry
And the ol' Lee king's apothecary
They ware the little man

The little man

I go back now and the stores are all empty

Except for an old !@%!e sign from 1950
Boarded up like they never existed
Or 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
That the people go round but they seldom think
Bout 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 stores came where you do it yourself
You buy a lotto ticket and food off the shelf
Forget about 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 down the road
And sell velvet Elvis and
Second-hand clothes

There goes little man
There goes another little man


Now the are lined up in a concrete strip
You can buy the world with just one trip
And save a penny cause it's jumbo size

They don't even realize
They'er killin' the little man
Oh the little man


It wasn't long when I was a child
An old black man came with his plow

He broke the ground where we grew our garden
Back before we'd all forgot about the little man
The little man

Long live the little man
God bless the little man