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 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

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 court square's

just a set of street

that people go 'round but the seldom think

but the little man that buil this town

before the big money shut them down

And killer the little man

oh the little man

Now the stores are lined up in a conrete strip
You can buy the whole world in just one trip
And save a penny ‘couse it’s jumbo size
They don’t even realize

They’re killin’ the little man
Oh the little man
 

Now the court square's

just a set of street

that people go 'round but the seldom think

but the little man that buil this town

before the big money shut them down

And killer the little man

oh the little man

It wasn’t long ago when I was a child
And 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