Artist: Burl Ives   Title: Rodger Young   ------------------------      (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...