Me and the Farmer

"Me and the Farmer"
Single by The Housemartins
from the album The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death
Released24 August 1987
Recorded1987
GenreRock
LabelGo! Discs
Songwriter(s)Paul Heaton, Stan Cullimore.
The Housemartins singles chronology
"Five Get Over Excited"
(1987)		 "Me and the Farmer"
(1987)		 "Build"
(1987)

"Me and the Farmer" is a single by British Indie rock band The Housemartins from the album The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death. It reached #15 in the UK singles chart the week of 12 September 1987. The song had been written some 18 months previously, on 22 January 1986 (the same day as Happy Hour).

The B-Side "Step Outside" later appeared on the 1988 compilation LP Now That's What I Call Quite Good.

The song is about how gentleman farmers treat their workers badly.

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