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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
[Verse 1]
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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
[Chorus 1]
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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
[Verse 2]
D G
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
[Chorus 2]
G/D G/D G/D G
Sleeps a man, Rodger Young, fought and died
Em/B
for the men he marched among
G C G
In the everlasting glory of the infantry
Em G G/A G/A
lives the story, of Private, Rodger Young
[Outro]
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