Little Man - Alan Jackson

Little Man
Alan Jackson

I remember walk'in round the court square sidewalks
Lookin' in windows at things I couldn't want
There's Johnson's Hardware and Morgan's 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 coke 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

[Chorus]
Now the Court Square is 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 man down the road
And they sell velvet Elvis and Second-hand clothes
There goes Little Man
There goes another Little Man

[Chorus]

Now the stores 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're 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...