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[Verse 1]
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I remember walk'in round the court square sidewalk
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Lookin' in windows at things I could want
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   There's Johnson's hardware and Morgan's jewelry
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And the ol' Lee King's apothecary
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They were the little man
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The little man


[Verse 2]
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   I go back now and the stores are all empty
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Except for an old coke sign dated 1950
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   Boarded up like they never existed
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   Or renovated and called historic districts
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There goes the little man
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There goes the little man


[Chorus]
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Now the court square's just a   set of streets
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That the people go round but they seldom think
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Bout 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
       C           F
Oh the little man


[Verse 3]
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   He pumped your gas and he cleaned your glass
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And one cold rainy night he fixed your flat
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   The new stores came where you do it yourself
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You buy a   lotto ticket and food off the shelf
                 C            F
Forget about the little man
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Forget about that little man


[Verse 4]
C                         G
   He hung on there for a few more years
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But he couldn't sell slurpees, and he wouldn't sell beer
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Now the bank rents the station
     G
To a man down the road
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And they sell velvet Elvis and second-hand clothes
               C            F
There goes the little man
                   C
There goes another little man


[Chorus]
        Am                    F
Now the court square's just a   set of streets
         C                     G
That the people go round but they seldom think
         Am              F
Bout the little man that built this town
  C                  G
Before the big money shut em down
               C            F
And killed the little man
       C
Oh the little man


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 5]
        C                        G
Now the stores are lined up in a concrete strip
        F
You can buy the world with just one trip
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   And save a penny cause it's jumbo size
    F
And they don't even realize
                    C            F
They're killin' the little man
       C
Oh the little man


[Chorus]
        Am                    F
Now the court square's just a   set of streets
         C                     G
That the people go round but they seldom think
         Am              F
Bout the little man that built this town
  C                  G
Before the big money shut em down
               C            F
And killed the little man
       C           F
Oh the little man


[Verse 6]
C                      G
   It wasn't long when I was a child
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An old black man came with his mule and his 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
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The little man
              C            F
Long live the little man
              C
God bless the little man