Little Man-Alan Jackson

[ti:Little Man] [ar:Alan Jackson] [al:268558] [offset:0] [00:09.46]I remember walk'in round the court square sidewalk [00:13.70]Lookin' in windows at things I couldn't want [00:18.37]There's johnson's hardware and morgans jewelry [00:20.89]And the ol' Lee king's apothecary [00:25.16]They ware the little man [00:28.89]The little man [00:34.39]I go back now and the stores are all empty [00:37.75]Except for an old coke sign from 1950 [00:42.50]Boarded up like they never existed [00:44.01]Or renovated and called historic districts [00:48.68]There goes the little man [00:53.09]There goes the little man [00:57.57]Now the court square's just a set of streets [01:01.83]That the people go round but they seldom think [01:05.46]Bout the little man that built this town [01:09.83]Before the big money shut em down [01:13.57]And killed the little man [01:17.47]Oh the little man [01:18.42]He pumped your gas and he cleaned your glass [01:24.57]And one cold rainy night he fixed your flat [01:28.61]The new stores came where you do it yourself [01:32.52]You buy a lotto ticket and food off the shelf [01:37.60]Forget about the little man [01:40.84]Forget about that little man [01:41.89]He hung on there for a few more years [01:48.47]But he couldn't sell slurpees [01:50.79]And he wouldn't sell beer [01:52.79]Now the bank rents the station [01:55.78]To a down the road [01:58.37]And sell velvet Elvis and [01:59.88]Second-hand clothes [02:00.37]There goes little man [02:04.82]There goes another little man [02:09.54]Now the are lined up in a concrete strip [02:11.99]You can buy the world with just one trip [02:20.18]And save a penny cause it's jumbo size [02:27.32]They don't even realize [02:28.43]They'er killin' the little man [02:29.73]Oh the little man [02:31.17]It wasn't long when I was a child [02:55.76]An old black man came with his plow [03:26.26]He broke the ground where we grew our garden [03:28.29]Back before we'd all forgot about the little man [03:30.14]The little man [03:30.81]Long live the little man [03:31.92]God bless the little man