Key: C
Introduction:
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I remember walkin' round the court 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 Morman's Jewelry
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And the old Lee Kings apothacary
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They were the little man The 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 there goes the little man
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Now the court square's just a set of streets
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that people go round but the seldom think
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bout' the little man that built this town
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before the big money shut um' down
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and killed the little man ah, 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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The new store came where you do it yourself
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You buy lotto ticket and food off the shelf
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forget the little man forget about that little man
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He hung on there for a few more 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 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
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Now store's lined up in a concrete 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 size
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and they don't ever realize
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their killin' the little man ah, the little man
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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 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 the little man long live the little man
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God Bless the little man