The Ballad of Rodger Young-Burl Ives

[ti:The Ballad Of Rodger Young] [ar:Burl Ives] [al:The Best of Burl Ives] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.19]The Ballad of Rodger Young - Burl Ives (布勒·埃夫斯) [00:01.88]Written by：Cochran [00:02.68] [00:05.66]Oh they've got no time for glory in the infantry [00:09.80] [00:10.71]Oh they've got no use for praises loudly sung [00:14.50] [00:15.87]But in every soldier's heart in all the infantry [00:20.19] [00:21.03]Shines the name shines the name of Rodger Young [00:24.84] [00:26.07]Shines the name Rodger Young [00:30.28] [00:31.30]Fought and died for the men he marched among [00:35.54] [00:36.50]To the everlasting glory of the infantry [00:40.92] [00:41.54]Lives the story of private Rodger Young [00:45.69] [00:46.79]Caught in ambush lay a company of riflemen [00:50.77] [00:51.64]Just grenades against machine guns in the gloom [00:55.86] [00:56.72]Caught in ambush till this one of twenty riflemen [01:01.34] [01:01.89]Volunteered volunteered to meet his doom [01:05.84] [01:07.20]It was he who drew the fire of the enemy [01:11.49] [01:12.11]That a company of men might live to fight [01:16.59] [01:17.31]And before the deadly fire of the enemy [01:21.73] [01:22.34]Stood the man stood the man we hail tonight [01:26.35] [01:27.44]Stood the man Rodger Young [01:31.50] [01:32.46]Fought and died for the men he marched among [01:36.60] [01:37.56]Like the everlasting courage of the infantry [01:42.04] [01:42.70]Was the courage of private Rodger Young [01:47.05] [01:48.45]On the island of new Georgia in the solomons [01:55.25] [01:56.40]Stands a simple wooden 'cross alone to tell [02:03.33] [02:04.76]That beneath the silent coral of the solomons [02:12.48] [02:13.67]Sleeps a man [02:15.58] [02:16.18]Sleeps a man remembered well [02:21.33] [02:23.77]Sleeps a man Rodger Young [02:29.38] [02:30.04]Fought and died for the men he marched among [02:34.82] [02:35.58]In the everlasting spirit of the infantry [02:40.72]Breathes the spirit of private Rodger Young [02:45.29] [02:46.07]Shines the name Rodger Young [02:50.47] [02:51.07]Fought and died for the men he marched among [02:55.63] [02:56.35]To the everlasting glory of the infantry [03:01.54]Lives the story of private Rodger Young