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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
         F#
And the Old E King and the pots they carried
              C#       F#       C#
They're the little man    The little man
C#                  G#
I go back now the stores are empty
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'Cept an old coke sign dated 1950
C#                     G#
Boarded up like they never existed
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Renovated and called historic district
                  C#      F#                  C#
There goes the little man    There goes the little man

CHORUS:
          A#m                   F#
Now the court squares's just a set of streets
C#                          G#
People go round but they seldom think
            A#m             F# 
About the little man that built this town
C#                    G# 
Before the big money shut 'em down
                 C#       F#                   C#   
And killed the little man    offed the little man


C#                           G#
He pumped your gas and he'd clean your glass
F# 
One cold rainy night he fixed your flat
C#                         G#   
A new store came where you do it yourself
     F#
You buy a lotto ticket and food off the shelf
             C#       F#                    C#
Forget the little man    forget about the little man
C#                      G#
He hung on there for a few more years
F#     
He couldn't sell slurpees and he wouldn't sell beer
C#                                   G#
Now the bank rents the station to a man down the road
                F#
And they sell velvet Elvises and second hand clothes
                 C#       F#                       C#
There goes the little man     There goes another little man
Go to chorus, lead
C#                                 G#
Now the stores are lined up in a concrete strip
F#
You can buy the whole world in just one trip
C#                        G#
Save a penny cause it's jumbo size
F#           
They don't even realize
                      C#       F#              C# 
They're killing the little man     Offed the little man

Go to chorus,
C#                      G#
It wasn't long ago when I was a child
F#
An old black man came with his mule and plow
     C#                       G#
He broke the ground where we grew our garden
F#
Back before we'd all forgotten
            C#        F#        C#       F#
About the little man     The little man, 
                 C#       F#                           C#
Long live the little man,    God bless the little man