Smalltown Poets Albums
"Small Town" is a 1985 song by John Mellencamp. Small Town may also refer to: Music * ''Small Town'' (album) or the title song, by Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan, 2017 * ''Small Town'', a 1976 orchestral composition by Peter Sculthorpe * "Small Town", a song by Florida Georgia Line from ''Can't Say I Ain't Country'' * "Smalltown", a song by Chumbawamba from ''Tubthumper'' * "Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town", a song by Pearl Jam, often referred to as "Small Town" by the band and its fans Television * "Small Town" (''Sports Night''), an episode * ''Smalltown'', a 2016 Irish mini-series directed by Gerard Barrett See also * Town * Village * Hamlet (place) A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. Its size relative to a Parish (administrative division), parish can depend on the administration and region. A hamlet may be considered to be a smaller settlement or subdiv ...

Small Town
"Small Town" is a 1985 song written by John Mellencamp and released on his 1985 album ''Scarecrow''. The song reached #6 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and #13 Adult Contemporary. Content Mellencamp wrote the song about his experiences growing up in a small town in Indiana, having been born in Seymour, Indiana, and living in Bloomington, Indiana, which, at the time of the release of the song, was larger. The music video has references to both towns. Backstory "I wrote that song in the laundry room of my old house," Mellencamp told ''American Songwriter'' magazine in 2004. "We had company, and I had to go write the song. And the people upstairs could hear me writing and they were all laughing when I came up. They said, 'You've got to be kidding.' What else can you say about it?" 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 up ...
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