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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