David....

You've really got my interest up here.
I have strong (but obviously incomplete) recollection of this song.
My parents had the Burl Ives LP in the late 40's,
when they first came out (10-inchers in those days).

I've thrown together a few words I can recall
in the hope that it will jog someone else's memory.
I hope the format comes out right when it gets on the thread.
In the meantime, I'll keep looking, I'd really like to
add this one to my list.

Good hunting........Ralph (Tiger) Butts

  
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They've got no use for glory in the infantry,  
They've got no time for praises loudly sung,  
 ............of the infantry,  
Lives the name, lives the name of Rodger Young,  
  
	Lives the name, Rodger Young,  
	...........................  
	...........................  
	..............., Rodger Young.  
  
.........................  
Just grenades against machine guns in the gloom  
It was there that ...................  
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.  
But before the deadly fire of the enemy  
Died the man, died the man we hail tonight.  
  
	Died the man, Rodger Young,  
	.........................  
	.........................  
	..............., Rodger Young.  
  
On the island of New Georgia in the Solomons  
Stands a simple wooden cross alone to tell  
that beneath the ......... of the Solomons  
Sleeps a man, sleeps a man remembered well.  
  
	Sleeps the man, Rodger Young,  
	Fought and died for the men he marched among  
	...................  
	..............., Rodger Young.