From: utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!bts
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: The Green Hills of Earth
Article-I.D.: unc.4182
Posted: Fri Oct 29 15:38:36 1982
Received: Sat Oct 30 03:03:23 1982



     He had no idea what comprised her usual  diet,  but  he
     bought a can of New York roast beef and one of Venusian
     frog-broth and  a  dozen  fresh  canal-apples  and  two
     pounds  of  that Earth lettuce that grows so vigorously
     in the fertile canal-soil of Mars.  He  felt  that  she
     must  surely find something to her liking in this broad
     variety of edibles, and-- for his  day  had  been  very
     satisfactory--  he hummed "The Green Hills of Earth" to
     himself in a surprisingly good baritone as  he  climbed
     the stairs.

     This paragraph is from "Shambleau", by C.L. Moore, pub-
lished  in the November 1933 Weird Tales. (I just read it in
a collection of her stories called  Northwest  Smith,  after
their  central  character.)  They're  good  stories  for the
30's-- Mars is a desert and Venus  a  hot  swamp--  but  the
reference  to  the  song in that last sentence surprised me.
While no words to it are given, this is the same title  that
Heinlein used in one of his better-known short stories a few
years later.

     Here's my question:  If Heinlein didn't  originate  the
idea of a song by this title-- obviously meant to be sung by
home-sick Earthmen-- who did?  Is this Moore story the first
mention or was there an earlier?

     Simple answers via mail, discussions to this group.

			Bruce Smith
			bts.unc@udel-relay
			duke!unc!bts