Little Man

C, F (2x) C G I remember walk'in round the court square sidewalk F Lookin' in windows at things I could want C G There's Johnson's hardware and Morgan's jewelry F And the ol' Lee King's apothecary C F They were the little man C F The little man C G I go back now and the stores are all empty F Except for an old coke sign dated 1950 C G Boarded up like they never existed F Or renovated and called historic districts C F There goes the little man C There goes the little man Am F Now the court square's just a set of streets C G That the people go round but they seldom think Am F Bout the little man that built this town C G Before the big money shut em down C F And killed the little man C Oh the little man C G He pumped your gas and he cleaned your glass F And one cold rainy night he fixed your flat C G The new stores came where you do it yourself F You buy a lotto ticket and food off the shelf C F Forget about the little man C Forget about that little man C G He hung on there for a few more years F But he couldn't sell slurpees, and he wouldn't sell beer C Now the bank rents the station G To a man down the road F And they sell velvet Elvis and second-hand clothes C F There goes the little man C There goes another little man C G Now the stores are lined up in a concrete strip F You can buy the world with just one trip C G And save a penny cause it's jumbo size F And they don't even realize C F They're killin' the little man C Oh the little man C G It wasn't long when I was a child F An old black man came with his plow C G He broke the ground where we grew our garden F Back before we'd all forgot C F About the little man C F The little man C F Long live the little man C (hold to fade, or strum increasingly slower a few times, then hold) God bless the little man