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Backstory:

I brought this song idea with me when I met with Christine Anderson (author of 'The Songwriters' Blueprint') to do some cowriting.  After our first draft, I told her about a new direction that we could take the song.  In view of the number of families today where the father is not at home all of the time, many due to being off at war, I thought of how many 'little boys' are acting as 'little big men' of the house while their Daddys are gone.  Soon thereafter, "Little Big Man" came to be...

Lyrics:

                                                  
Little Big Man
(c)  Lisa L. Medill/Christine Anderson

Billy's Daddy don't live at home anymore		
The third battalion called he left for war		
Momma has it tough taking care of four kids	
But Billy helps her out like his Daddy did		
He’s fixed the fence now he's mowing the yard  
Momma tells herself he works so hard  

(1st chorus)
He must feel like a parent more than a son 
Trying to be everything to everyone
He's just a boy
Doing all he can
Wish he could be a little boy   
Not a little big man

Momma mails letters to his Daddy each week	
She cries when she writes baby’s learning to speak	
Tommy's starting school 'n Michael told her last night
He wants the training wheels off his big boy bike	
Billy took ‘em off ‘n helped him on the seat
He smiled as Michael rode down the street		 

(2nd chorus)
He must feel like a parent more than a son 
Trying to be everything to everyone
He's just a boy
Doing all he can
Wish he could be a little boy   
Not a little big man

(bridge)
One night Billy’s Daddy came back home
And sat beside him on his bed
Billy woke up and held him tight
As his father softly said 

(3rd chorus)
You must feel like a parent more than a son 
Trying to be everything to everyone
You're just a boy
Doing all you can
Now you can be a little boy   
Not a little big man

(tag)
Now you can be a little boy   
Not a little big man