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The Green Hills of Earth

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during World War II. He never identified him beyond the name "Tony." Heinlein was amazed that Tony had a perfect safety record and a production record equal to sighted machinists and could identify all his co-workers solely by the sound of their footsteps and other aural clues, without need of them
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The events of the story concern the composition of the titular song. Rhysling realizes that his death of old age is near, and hitchhikes on a spaceship headed to Earth so he can die and be buried where he was born. A malfunction threatens the ship with destruction, and Rhysling enters the irradiated
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bemoans the fact that he cannot "pray for one last landing" because the "Green Hills of Earth" have deteriorated and the planet is uninhabitable. Later, Lazarus tells the story of a blind accordion player who temporarily took residence in a bordello that he owned on Mars almost two thousand years
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Scott's memory of this last verse does not match either of the versions in the story itself, which is fitting considering that "most of the verses were collected after death from people who knew him" and "The Green Hills of Earth grew through twenty years".
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The arching sky is calling / Spacemen back to their trade. / All hands! Stand by! Free falling! / And the lights below us fade. / Out ride the sons of Terra, / Far drives the thundering jet, / Up leaps the race of Earthmen / Out, far, and onward
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recalled in 1969 "I'll never forget the shock that rumbled through the entire world of science fiction fandom when ... Heinlein broke the 'slicks' barrier by having an undiluted science fiction story of his published in
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as a piece that Bill Lermer plays on his own accordion. Later in that same novel, Lermer is trying to identify a quote ("I have lived and worked with men") and guesses that it was written by Rhysling or Kipling.
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Joe Allen on Earth summoned David Scott and Jim Irwin with the words "As the space poet Rhysling would say, we're ready for you to 'come back again to the homes of men on the cool green hills of Earth.'"
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Allen: As the space poet Rhysling (the blind poet in Robert Heinlein's The Green Hills of Earth) would say, we're ready for you to "come back again to the homes of men on the cool green hills of Earth."
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hums the tune. In another of C.L. Moore's Northwest Smith stories named "The Cold Gray God", published in 1935, the song is mentioned as a solar-wide hit by a singer named Rose Robertson. Moore and
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pays homage to this song: Chapter 17 ("Fire in the Sky") ends with a scene where a spacecraft evades an attack. The chapter ends with the background intercom blaring:
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speaking to him first. Tony also occasionally played the accordion and sang for the assembled shop. William H. Patterson, in his Heinlein biography
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The song "The Green Hills of Earth" which appears in the story was also used in the 11th episode of the third series of the British radio series,
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We pray for one last landing/ On the globe that gave us birth/ Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies/ And the cool, green hills of Earth.
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ago. Although Heinlein readers can easily recognize the character, Lazarus himself does not "recall his right name, if he had one."
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also have Northwest Smith hum the song in their 1937 short story "Quest of the Starstone," which quotes several lines of lyrics.
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We rot in the molds of Venus, / We retch at her tainted breath. / Foul are her flooded jungles, / Crawling with unclean death.
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Across the seas of darkness / The good green Earth is bright – / Oh, Star that was my homeland / Shine down on me tonight.
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My heart turns home in longing/ Across the voids between, / To know beyond the spaceways/ The hills of Earth are green.
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astronauts. who quoted the last verse of Rhysling's song "The green hills of Earth" (from this story) as their third
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radio series (episode 10). It also appeared on the July 7, 1955, broadcast of the NBC Radio Network program
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Joe Allen told them to "come home again to the homes of men, to the cool green hills of Earth" as their last
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the song plays in the Recreation Building of the penal colony on Mars, reminding all of what they've left.
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The story features several other partial songs and a number of titles attributed to Rhysling. These are:
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Several are described as sexually explicit songs excluded from the official edition of Rhysling's works.
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astronauts named a number of craters in their landing area after favorite science fiction stories. Near "
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and tells them to record his last song; he dies just moments after singing the final, titular verse.
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officer) spins a yarn about a radiation-blinded, unemployable spaceship engineer crisscrossing the
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Both the song "The Green Hills of Earth" and the character of Rhysling are mentioned in the novel
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It is the story of "Noisy" Rhysling, the blind space-going songwriter whose poetic skills rival
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that he partially based Rhysling's unique abilities on a blind machinist he worked with at the
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Heinlein credited the title of the song, "The Green Hills of Earth", to the short story "
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area to perform repairs. While completing the repairs, he knows that he will soon die of
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writing and singing songs. The story takes the form of a nonfiction magazine article.
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Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Vol. 1 - Learning Curve (1907-1948)
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Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: Learning Curve 1907-1948
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Probably "I have lived and toiled with Men!" from The Galley-Slave By Kipling
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Heinlein wrote several fragments of lyrics and six full stanzas for the song.
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This article is about the Robert A. Heinlein short story. For other uses, see
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Moore and Kuttner also give fragments of lyrics in "Quest of the Starstone."
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recorded a dramatic reading of the story as the title track of an album for
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Leonard Nimoy reads Robert Heinlein's "The Green Hills of Earth"
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Heinlein revealed in the liner notes to the Leonard Nimoy album
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The song "The Green Hills of Earth" is mentioned three times in
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Four collections of Rhysling's works are mentioned. They are:
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Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Journal "The Hammer and the Feather"
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https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_galleyslave.htm
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CBS Radio Workshop on Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs
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Heinlein, Robert A. (1981). "The Green Hills of Earth".
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Works originally published in The Saturday Evening Post
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on July 21, 1957. The script was by Draper Lewis and
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Index

Short story
Robert A. Heinlein
The Saturday Evening Post
Green Hills of Earth (disambiguation)
Robert A. Heinlein
Future History
The Saturday Evening Post
The Green Hills of Earth
The Past Through Tomorrow
My Best Science Fiction Story
Rhysling Award
speculative fiction
Science Fiction Poetry Association
Rhysling (crater)
Apollo 15
moonwalk
Rudyard Kipling
U.S. naval
Solar System
radiation poisoning
Apollo 15
Dune
Earthlight
Rhysling (crater)
Capcom
moonwalk
Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Journal "The Hammer and the Feather"
Universe
Farmer in the Sky
Time Enough for Love

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