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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
G/D              G
 Who like Rodger Young have sacrificed their lives, that their nation might remain forever free
 
[Verse 1]
          D                        G
Caught in ambush, lay a company of riflemen
        D                                  G
Just grenades, against machine guns in the gloom
          C                               G    
Caught in ambush, till this one of twenty riflemen
G/A          D7/A                    G
Volunteered, volunteered to meet his doom
 
[Chorus 1]
G/D          G/D           G/D        G
Volunteered, Rodger Young, fought and died
               Em/B
for the men he marched among
G        C                          G
  In the everlasting courage of the infantry
Em        G        G/A          G/A
  was the courage,  of Private, Rodger Young
 
[Verse 2]
       D                             G
On the island of New Georgia, in the Solomons
         D                             G    G7
Stands a simple wooden cross, alone to tell
       C                             G   
That beneath the silent coral of the Solomons
Em      D/A    G/A             D        G
 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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