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
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