The Ballad of Rodger Young

The Ballad Of Rodger Young - Burl Ives (伯爾·艾夫斯)

Oh they've got no time for glory in the Infantry

Oh they've got no use for praises loudly sung

But in every soldier's heart in all the Infantry

Shines the name shines the name of Rodger Young

Shines the name Rodger Young

Fought and died for the men he marched among

To the everlasting glory of the Infantry

Lives the story of Private Rodger Young

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

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 Rodger Young

Fought and died for the men he marched among

Like 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 spirit of the Infantry

Breathes the spirit of Private Rodger Young

Shines the name Rodger Young

Fought and died for the men he marched among

To the everlasting glory of the Infantry

Lives the story of Private Rodger Young