The Ballad Of Rodger Young-Burl Ives

[ti:The Ballad Of Rodger Young] [ar:Burl Ives] [al:Country Pioneers - Burl Ives] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ballad Of Rodger Young - Burl Ives (布勒·埃夫斯) [00:05.59]Oh they've got no time for glory in the Infantry [00:10.53]Oh they've got no use for praises loudly sung [00:14.87] [00:15.53]But in every soldier's heart in all the Infantry [00:20.33] [00:20.86]Shines the name shines the name of Rodger Young [00:25.02] [00:26.00]Shines the name Rodger Young [00:30.47] [00:31.09]Fought and died for the men he marched among [00:36.08]To the everlasting glory of the Infantry [00:41.36]Lives the story of Private Rodger Young [00:45.39] [00:46.49]Caught in ambush lay a company of riflemen [00:50.87] [00:51.73]Just grenades against machine guns in the gloom [00:56.04] [00:56.62]Caught in ambush till this one of twenty riflemen [01:01.28] [01:01.81]Volunteered volunteered to meet his doom [01:06.13] [01:06.99]It was he who drew the fire of the enemy [01:11.37] [01:11.98]That a company of men might live to fight [01:16.33] [01:16.95]And before the deadly fire of the enemy [01:21.72] [01:22.24]Stood the man stood the man we hail tonight [01:26.42] [01:27.13]Stood the man Rodger Young [01:31.64] [01:32.21]Fought and died for the men he marched among [01:36.66] [01:37.43]Like the everlasting courage of the Infantry [01:42.52]Was the courage of Private Rodger Young [01:47.15] [01:48.33]On the island of New Georgia in the Solomons [01:54.97] [01:56.32]Stands a simple wooden cross alone to tell [02:03.56] [02:04.72]That beneath the silent coral of the Solomons [02:13.56]Sleeps a man sleeps a man remembered well [02:21.86] [02:23.58]Sleeps a man Rodger Young [02:29.93]Fought and died for the men he marched among [02:35.29]In the everlasting spirit of the Infantry [02:40.61]Breathes the spirit of Private Rodger Young [02:45.33] [02:45.92]Shines the name Rodger Young [02:51.10]Fought and died for the men he marched among [02:56.13]To the everlasting glory of the Infantry [03:01.45]Lives the story of Private Rodger Young