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Jim Reeves - Rodger Young Lyrics

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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...

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