• COVER
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  • NOTES
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  • MUSIC
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  • CONTACT

The Rent is Due

  • Front Cover
  • Back Cover
  • Sleeve Notes
  • Album Sleeve Notes
  • Contents by Chapter
  • Progress and Poverty
  • The Progress of Henry George
  • The Single Taxers
  • Natural Energy
  • The World’s Progress Without Justice
  • Timeline
  • The Persistence of Hope
  • What They Say About Henry George
  • The Hushing Up
  • XXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • The Heaven Sent

The rent’s been due for a long time

One day it’s gotta be paid

It’s been piling up now for centuries

And gloom and oppression it made

The rent is due, it is nagging

And higher the value soars

Paid it must be, it is urgent

As the wolves are nearing the door

 

Here’s notice that the

Rent is due,

and when it’s paid we’re freed,

to be what we can be,

a happy world you’d see

Here’s notice that the rent is due,

been due a long, long time,

The denied bottom line

The longest unsolved crime

 

The giants have the world enclosed

But there is coming a day

The truth is always insistent

It’s never going away

 

Here’s notice that the Rent is due

when it’s paid, we will be

unchained beyond wild imaginings

of how sweet life could be

Here’s notice that the Rent is due

when it’s paid we can rest

run out of words to express

and colours to describe

 

The rent’s been due for a long time

One day it’s gotta be paid

The truth will remain insistent

It’s never going away

Music and Lyrics by John Harris

 

 

Jacqueline Harris - backing vocals

Joanne Harris - backing vocals

John Harris - bass, vocals

Matt Hall - backing vocals

Paul Greening - rhythm guitar

Roger Sampson - lead guitar

Stewart Bickel - drums

 

Recorded at Dead and Alive Studio

Produced by John Harris 

Engineered and Mastered by Matt Hall at SLW Studio

 

Billboard: "EVERYBODY WORKS BUT THE VACANT LOT"

 

 

Progress and Poverty front cover

 

 
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