Michael Foot, leader of the Labour Party from 1980 to 1983, recalled to the BBC World Service how he heard and learned the song while growing up in a Liberal household in the west of England.
Foot said it was the best political song he had heard, imbued with the democratic spirit and designed to put fear in the hearts of the landlords.
The song became a Liberal radical anthem in the aftermath of David Lloyd George's "People's Budget" of 1909 which proposed a tax on land.
A recording made at a Glee Club around 1990 has been deposited at the Janey Buchan Political Song Collection in Glasgow.
The first is from its original 1887 Chicago publication; the second is from a recording issued for the 1910 UK general elections; the third is from the Liberator song book.
While the voice of Nature thunders o'er the rising tide— "God made the Land for the People!"
The banner has been raised on high to face the battle din: The Army now is marching on the struggle to begin.
Chorus Sound the blast for freedom, boys, and send 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 made the land for the people".
The banner has been raised on high to face the battle din, The army now is marching on, the struggle to begin, We'll never cease our efforts till the victory we win, And the land is free for the people.
Clear the way for liberty, the land must all be free, Britons will not falter in the fight tho' stern it be.
Chorus 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!"