Jim Reeves – Rodger Young (Guitar)

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 On July thirty-first, nineteen-forty-three a bloody round in the battle for the Solomon Islands

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Was being fought in the tangled 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, 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, fought and died

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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 Solomons

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Stands a simple wooden cross, alone to tell

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That beneath the silent coral of the Solomons

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 Sleeps a man,  sleeps a man remembered well

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Sleeps a man, Rodger Young, fought and died

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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