The Little Man

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I remember walkin' round the court
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 square sidewalks
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 Lookin' in windows at things I 
couldn't  want
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There's Johnson's Hardware and 
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Morman's Jewelry
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And the old Lee Kings  apothacary
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They were the little man      The 
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little man

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I go back now the stores are empty
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except and 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
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[Chorus]
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Now the court square's  just a set 
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of streets
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that people go round but the 
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seldom think
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bout' the little man  that built 
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this town
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before the big money shut um' down
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and killed the little man     ah, 
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the little man

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He pumped your gas and he'd clean 
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your glass
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One cold rainy night he fixed your 
flat
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The new store came where you do it
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 yourself
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You buy lotto ticket and food off 
the shelf
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forget the little man      forget 
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about that little man

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He hung on there for a few more 
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years
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but he couldn't sell slurpies and he
 wouldn't sell beer
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Now the bank rents the station to 
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a man down the road
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and they sell velvet Elvis  and  2nd
 hand clothes
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there goes the little man    there 
goes another little man

[Chorus]
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Now store's lined up in a concrete 
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strip
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You buy the whole world in just one 
trip
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You save a penny cause it's jumbo 
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size
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and they don't ever realize
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their killin' the little man      
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   ah, the little man

[Chorus]
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It wasn't long ago when I was a 
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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 
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our garden
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back before we'd all forgotten

[Interlude]
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about the little man      the little
 man     long live the little man
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God Bless the little man