What John Mellencamp song is about a family losing their farm?

John J Mellencamp (born October 7, 1951), also known as John Cougar Mellencamp, is an American musician, singer-songwriter, painter, and actor. He is known for his catchy, populist brand of heartland rock, which emphasizes traditional instrumentation.

"Rain on the Scarecrow" was one of John Mellencamp's classic American songs that was sung with the collective help of the FARM-AID country and rock star movement to help fight for the American farmers not to lose their farms to foreclosure by the big banks and Government. Some of these farms have been in the bloodline of some American families for hundreds of years.

Farm Aid started as a benefit concert held September 22, 1985, in Champaign, Illinois, to raise money for family farmers in the United States. The concert was organized by Mellencamp, Willie Nelson, and Neil Young, spurred on by Bob Dylan's comments at Live Aid earlier in that year that he hoped some of the money would help American farmers in danger of losing their farms through mortgage debt.