My father used to sing this as long as I can remember when I was a boy 60 years ago, along with Susanna's a Funniful Man. Almost certainly he learned them from Albert Richardson's recording of both as the words I learned from my father are almost identical to the Richardson version. I intend to use it in my three yearly audition as bass for the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Chorus and am looking for a bit more information on its origins.

For I be a true-bred country chap
Me father come from Fareham
And me mother she 'as some more like I
And she well knows how to rare 'em.
Some people calls I "Bacon-fat"
And others "Turniphead"
But to prove to you I beyn't no flat
Although I'm country-bred.

Chorus:
For I can milk a cow or drive a plough
For I can reap or mow
I'm as fresh as a daisy that grows in a field
And they call I "Buttercup Joe."

Now have you met my young woman
They calls her "Our Mary"
She works as busy as bumble-bee
Down in St Johns's dairy
And don't she make those dumplin's fine
One day I'm gonna try 'em
And I'll ask her if she'd like to wed
A country chap like I am.

Now some people they likes hay-makin'
Some others they like mowin',
But the job that I likes best of all
Is a job called turnip hoein'
And won't I just, when I gets wed
To my own Mary Ann,
I'll work for her and try me best
To please her all he can.