Steve
Cheers for the link to the Yorkshire Garland site. I've signed up. I've got a vague memory of hearing that song about mutton pie in the late 60s early 70s, but it was a different tune from The Yorkshire Farmer you've got up there.

Point taken about the Bothy Ballads, but those were composed by workers on Scottish estates big enough to need a bothy or two to put the workers in, I guess.

I don't know enough about the history of farming here or in the States, but I'm still interested why the 'working family farmer' has been championed in the States in political songs (from The Farmer is The Man through to Farm Aid) and not here.