The Land is a protest song, traditionally sung by the Georgist movement in pursuit and promotion of Land Value Taxation. Until the late 1970s it was sung at the end of each year's Liberal Assembly and remains until this day the anthem of the Liberal Party, as well as the traditional final song of the Liberal Democrats' Glee Club. A protest song is often a kind of folk music, but in recent times protest songs come from all genres of music, including punk rock and hip hop. ... Georgism, named for Henry George (1839-1897), is a philosophy and economic theory that follows from the belief that although everyone owns what they create; land, and everything else supplied by nature, belongs equally to all humanity. ... Land Value Taxation (LVT) is the policy of raising state revenues by charging each landholder a portion of the assessed site-only value of the unimproved land. ... Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution... For the novel by Ayn Rand, see Anthem (novel). ... The Liberal Party is a minor United Kingdom political party. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ... The Glee Club is a traditional event in the Liberal Assembly and Liberal Democrat Party Conference, consisting of a public singing around a piano. ...

Lyrics

Note - to the tune of Marching Through Georgia. Marching Through Georgia (sometimes called Marching Thru Georgia) is a marching song popular amongst union soldiers during the American Civil War, written by Henry Clay Work in 1865. ...

Sound the call for freedom boys, and sound it far and wide,
March along to victory, for God is on our side,
While the voice of nature thunders o'er the rising tide:
"God gave the land to the people."

Chorus

The land, the land,
'Twas God who made the land,
The land, the land,
The ground on which we stand,
Why should we be beggars
With a ballot in our hand?
God gave the land to the people.

Hark! The sound is spreading from the east and from the west!
Why should we work hard and let the landlords take the best?
Make them pay their taxes on the land just like the rest!
The land was meant for the people.

Chorus

Clear the way for liberty, the land must all be free,
None of us shall falter from the fight tho' stern shall be.
'Til the flag we love so well shall fly from sea to sea,
O'er the land that is free for the people.

Flag ratio: 10:19; nicknames: Stars and Stripes, Old Glory The flag of the United States of America consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white; there is a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing 50 small, white, five-pointed stars...

Chorus

The army now is marching on, the battle to begin,
The standard now is raised on high to face the battle din,
We'll never cease from fighting 'til the victory we win,
And the land is free for the people.

Chorus

See Also

• Liberator (magazine)
• Henry George
• The Internationale
• Bread and Roses

Henry George (September 2, 1839 - October 29, 1897) was an American political economist, and the most influential proponent of the Single Tax on land. ... The Internationale (LInternationale in French) is the most famous socialist song and one of the most widely recognized songs in the world. ... The slogan Bread and Roses originated in the strike of women textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1912. ... Politics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings. ...