Little Man

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I remember walking round the court square sidewalks 
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Looking in windows at things I couldn't want 
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There's Johnson's Hardware and Morton's Jewelry 
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And the Old E King and the pots they carried 
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They're the little man    The little man 
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I go back now the stores are empty 
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'Cept an old coke sign dated 1950 
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Boarded up like they never existed 
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Renovated and called historic district 
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There goes the little man    There goes the little man 
 
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Now the court squares's just a set of streets 
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People go round but they seldom think 
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About the little man that built this town 
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Before the big money shut 'em down 
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And killed the little man    offed the little man 
 
 
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He pumped your gas and he'd clean your glass 
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One cold rainy night he fixed your flat 
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A new store came where you do it yourself 
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You buy a lotto ticket and food off the shelf 
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Forget the little man    forget about the little man 
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He hung on there for a few more years 
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He couldn't sell slurpees and he wouldn't sell beer 
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Now the bank rents the station to a man down the road 
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And they sell velvet Elvises and second hand clothes 
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There goes the little man     There goes another little man 
Go to Chorus, lead 
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Now the stores are lined up in a concrete strip 
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You can buy the whole world in just one trip 
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Save a penny cause it's jumbo size 
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They don't even realize 
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They're killing the little man     Offed the little man 
 
Go to Chorus, 
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It wasn't long ago when I was a child 
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An old black man came with his mule and plow 
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He broke the ground where we grew our garden 
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Back before we'd all forgotten 
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About the little man     The little man,  
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Long live the little man,    God bless the little man