Rodger Young Lyrics - Jim Reeves

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 Roger Young have sacrificed their lives 

That their nation might remain forever free 

Oh, they've got no time for glory in the infantry 

Oh, they've got no time for praises loudly sung 

But in every soldier's heart in all the infantry 

Shines the name, shines the name of Roger Young 

Shines the name - Roger Young 

Fought and died for the men he marched among 

In the everlasting glory of the infantry 

Shines the name of Private Roger Young 

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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 Roger Young 

Fought and died for the men he marched among 

In the everlasting courage of the infantry 

Was the courage of Private Roger Young 

It was he who drew the fire of the enemy 

That a company of men might live to fight; 

And before the deadly fire of the enemy, 

Stood the man, stood the man we hail tonight. 

Stood the man, Roger Young, 

Fought and died for the men he marched among; 

Like the everlasting spirit of the infantry, 

Was the spirit of Private Rodger Young. 

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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 Roger Young 

Fought and died for the men he marched among 

In the everlasting glory of the infantry 

Lives the story of Private Roger Young