Little Man.  Alan Jackson.

Seq and Kar - Ron Tilden.  May 2008.

Little Man
Words and Music by: Alan Jackson
Performed by: Alan Jackson (1998)
Sequenced by: Ron Tilden

I remember walkin' 'round
The court square sidewalks
Lookin' in the windows
At things I couldn't want.
There's Johnson's Hardware
And Morgans Jew'lry
And the ol'
Lee King's Apothecary.
They were the little man,
The little man.

I go back now
And the stores are empty.
Except an old Coke sign
Dated nineteen fifty.
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 people go around, 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
Food off the shelf.
Forget 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 would'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 of streets
That people go around, 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 whole world
In just one trip
And save a penny 'cause
It's jumbo size.
They don't even realize
They're killin' the little man,
Oh, the little man.

Now the court square's just a set of streets
That people go around, 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 ago
When I was a child,
An old black man came
With his mule and his plow.
He broke the ground
Where we grew our garden.
Back before we'd all forgotten
About the little man,
The little man.
Long live the little man.
God bless the little man.

Little Man
Soft karaoke
Words
Melody
Piano
Guitar (Clean)
Guitar (Jazz)
Violin
Violin 2
Strings
Tuba
Bass
Drums