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Rodger Young
Recorded by Jim Reeves
Written by Frank Loesser
(Spoken)
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On July 31st 1943 a bloody round in the battle
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For the Solomon Islands was being fought in the tangled
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Jungle of the island of New Georgia
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This is the story of one of the young men who fought and died there
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This song is respectfully dedicated to those heroic infantrymen
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Who like Rodger Young have sacrificed their lives
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That their nation might remain forever free
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Caught in ambush lay a company of riflemen
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Just grenades against machine guns in the gloom
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Caught in ambush till this one of twenty riflemen
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Volunteered volunteered to meet his doom
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Volunteered Rodger Young
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Fought and died for the men he marched among
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In the everlasting courage of the infantry
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Was the courage of Private Rodger Young
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On the island of New Georgia in the Solomon's
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Stands a simple wooden cross alone to tell
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That beneath the silent coral of the Solomon's
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Sleeps a man sleeps a man remembered well
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Sleeps a man Rodger Young
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Fought and died for the men he marched among
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In the everlasting glory of the infantry
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Lives the story of Private Rodger Young
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