"Small Town" is a 1985 song written by John Mellencamp and released on his eighth album Scarecrow.

"I wrote that song in the laundry room of my old house," Mellencamp told American Songwriter magazine in 2004.

"[3] Mellencamp later told The Wall Street Journal that he had written the lyrics using an electronic typewriter that beeped whenever he misspelled a word, which had amused the people listening upstairs; however, they were silenced when he played the song to them.

"[6] In February 2020, the Michael Bloomberg 2020 presidential campaign released a campaign advertisement pitched at small American towns with declining economies, backed by Mellencamp singing "Small Town".

[14][15][16] Minnesota governor and 2024 vice presidential candidate Tim Walz used the song as his walk-on theme for rallies during the 2024 election, as a reference to his roots in small-town Nebraska.