“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.”

— Frank Loesser

The Ballad of Rodger Young http://www.wegrokit.com/shines.htm

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American songwriter 1910–1969

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