The Little Man

	  		Title:  The Little Man 
Artist: Alan Jackson 
Transcribe by: John McDaniel 
 
capo - 1st fret 
 
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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 
 
Repeat Chorus: 
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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 
 
Repeat Chorus: 
 
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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 
                       C  
God Bless the little man