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Artist: Burl Ives

Title: Rodger Young

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(Spoken)

On July 31st 1943 a bloody round in the battle for

The solomon islands was being fought in the tangled

Jungle of the island of New Georgia.

This is the story of one of the young men who fought

And died there.

This song is respectfully dedicated to those heroic

Infantrymen who like Rodger Young have sacrificed

Their lives that their nation might remain forever free.

(Sang)

Caught in ambush lay a company of riflemen

Just grenades against machine guns in the gloom

Caught in ambush till this one of twenty riflemen

Volunteered, volunteered to meet his doom.

Volunteered, Rodger Young,

Fought and died for the men he marched among

In the everlasting courage of the infantry

Was the courage of Private Rodger Young.

On the island of New Georgia in the Solomons

Stands a simple wooden cross alone to tell

That beneath the silent coral of the Solomons

Sleeps a man, sleeps a man remembered well.

Sleeps a man, Rodger Young,

Fought and died for the men he marched among

In the everlasting glory of the infantry

Lives the story of Private Rodger Young...