On July 31st 1943 a bloody round in the battle for the Solomon Islands   Was being fought in the tangled jungle of the island of New Georgia   This is the story of one of the young men who fought and died there   This song is respectfully dedicated to those heroic infantrymen   Who like Roger Young have sacrificed their lives   That their nation might remain forever free         Oh, they've got no time for glory in the infantry   Oh, they've got no time 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 and died for the men he marched among   In the everlasting glory of the infantry   Shines the name of Private Roger 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 Roger Young   Fought and died for the men he marched among   In the everlasting courage of the infantry   Was the courage of Private Roger 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.      Stood the man, Roger Young,   Fought and died for the men he marched among;   Like the everlasting spirit of the infantry,   Was the spirit 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 Roger Young   Fought and died for the men he marched among   In the everlasting glory of the infantry   Lives the story of Private Roger Young