Alan Jackson – Little Man Chords

I remember walking round the court square sidewalk
Lookin’ in windows at things I could want
There’s Johnson’s hardware and Morgan’s jewelry
And the old Lee King’s apothecary
They were the little man, the little man

I go back now and the stores are all empty
Except for an old coke sign dated 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 man down the road
And they sell velvet Elvis and second-hand clothes
There goes the little man there goes another little man

Now the court square’s just a set off 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.

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
And they don’t even realize
They’re killing the little man, oh the little man

Now the court square’s just a set off 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.

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