You can find a lot here: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To - Chas Marshall - CatBook (pdf). It contains info on the man who sang it - page 3+. You can find many examples of the tune on youtube eg My Home (I'll post an abc if anyone wants that).

Mick

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THE ARKENGARTHDALE SONG
(Arthur Jackson)

  Chorus:
  Here’s to the men of the Tees and the Swale,
  To the Nidd, Wear and Wharfe and Arkengarthdale
  And here’s to Charles Bathurst, the fellow won’t fail,
  To provide work for t’groovers

When I was a young lad wi’ mi’ father I went
Up to the mine where mi’ time it was spent
Breaking up the lead ore to help out wi’t rent
And learn the trade of a groover

Now I’m a youth and I’ll go down below
I’ll go wi’ mi’ father, he’ll teach me you know
How to look for the signs and to hew the lead ore
And teach me the trade of the groover

I’ve bairns of me own now the eldest is nine
He’ll come with me up to the mine
With his booker in hand reckon he will do fine
Like his father he’ll be a groover


Source: Cat Book as listed above. As sung by Arthur Jackson to the Scottish pipe tune “My Home”.