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Rodger Young
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Jim Reeves
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On July 31st 1943 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
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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 fought and died for the men he marched among
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In the everlasting courage of the infantry 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 for the men he marched among
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In the everlasting glory of the infantry lives the story of Private Rodger Young
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