From: House of Unruly Fish (carosue@centurytel.net)
Date: Mon Sep 03 2001 - 12:55:03 PDT
At 09:47 AM 9/3/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> From: purpleheart32@aol.com
>
>anyone know where I can get ww2 ballard of roger young? written about new
georger in the solomans
>:
The one written by Frank Loesser?
Anyway, I found one on the web. Is this it? All I know about the song is
that Robert Heinlein, the Science Fiction author, used it in one of his
books, Starship Troopers. Two versions below, the first one I think from
someone's memory.
http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/lookup.cgi?ti=ROGRYUNG
Rodger Young
"Oh they've got no time for glory in the infantry--
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 Roger Young.
Shines the name, Roger Young,
Fought & died for the men he marched among.
In the everlasting annals of the infantry,
Shines the last deed of Private Roger Young.
Caught in ambush lay a company of riflemen--
Just grenades against machine guns in the gloom;
Caught in ambush until one of twenty riflemen
Volunteered, volunteered to meet his doom.
Volunteered, Roger Young, etc
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 sing tonight.
Stood the man, Roger Young, etc.
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, Roger Young, etc."
second version, I found, scans better
http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/ReportersAlley/sarge_the_poet/rodger_young.
html
Lyrics to "The Ballad of Rodger Young,"
No, they’ve got no time for glory in the Infantry.
No, 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.
Volunteered, Rodger Young!
Fought and died for the men he marched among.
In the everlasting annals of the Infantry
Glows the last deed of Private Rodger Young.
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.
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.
No, they’ve got no time for glory in the Infantry,
No, 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.
Frank Loesser
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