Farmer's Trust is an instrumental jazz ballad written by Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays and performed by the Pat Metheny Group. The exact year of its release and the original album are not specified in the sources provided here. Pat Metheny has said in a Q&A that the tune is an original piece, not based on Schumann's The Happy Farmer. A pre-album version circulated as a 2015 unmastered recording by Frank Woelfer, dedicated to his father, and credits Metheny and Mays. A transcription, arrangement, and performance by Uwe Karcher appears on YouTube. The piece is generally categorized as jazz, instrumental—often described as a ballad with a warm, melodic mood.
