{t:Northwest Passage}
{st:Stan Rogers (1981)}

{soc}
Ah, for [/] [D] just one [/] [A] time,
I would [/] [G] take the Northwest [/] [Bm] Passage
To [/] [G] find the hand of [/] [D] Franklin,
Reaching [/] [Em] for the Beaufort [/] [G] Sea.
Tracing [/] [D] one warm [/] [A] line,
Through a [/] [G] land so wide and [/] [Bm] savage, and
[/] [G] Make a Northwest [/] [D] Passage, [A] to the [/] [D] sea. [/] [D] 
{eoc}


[/] [Bm] Westward from the [/] [D] Davis Strait,
'Tis [/] [G] there was said to [/] [Bm] lie,
The [/] [Bm] sea route to the [/] [D] Orient,
For [/] [Em] which so many [/] [G] died,
[/] [Bm] Seeking gold and [/] [D] glory,
Leaving [/] [G] weathered broken [/] [Bm] bones, and
A [/] [G] long forgotten [/] [D] lonely [A] cairn of [/] [Bm] stones. [/] [Bm]  


{soc}
Ah, for [/] [D] just one [/] [A] time,
I would [/] [G] take the Northwest [/] [Bm] Passage
To [/] [G] find the hand of [/] [D] Franklin,
Reaching [/] [Em] for the Beaufort [/] [G] Sea.
Tracing [/] [D] one warm [/] [A] line,
Through a [/] [G] land so wide and [/] [Bm] savage, and
[/] [G] Make a Northwest [/] [D] Passage, [A] to the [/] [D] sea. [/] [D] 
{eoc}


Three [/] [Bm] centuries there - [/] [D] after,
I take [/] [G] passage over [/] [Bm] land,
In the [/] [Bm] footsteps of brave [/] [D] Kelso,
Where his [/] [Em] "sea of flowers" be- [/] [G] gan.
Watching [/] [Bm] cities rise be- [/] [D] fore me,
Then be - [/] [G] hind me sink a- [/] [Bm] gain,
This [/] [G] tardiest ex- [/] [D] plorer,
Driving [/] [A] hard, across the [/] [Bm] plains. 


{soc}
Ah, for [/] [D] just one [/] [A] time,
I would [/] [G] take the Northwest [/] [Bm] Passage
To [/] [G] find the hand of [/] [D] Franklin,
Reaching [/] [Em] for the Beaufort [/] [G] Sea.
Tracing [/] [D] one warm [/] [A] line,
Through a [/] [G] land so wide and [/] [Bm] savage, and
[/] [G] Make a Northwest [/] [D] Passage, [A] to the [/] [D] sea. [/] [D] 
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And [/] [Bm] through the night be- [/] [D] hind the wheel,
The [/] [G] mileage clicking [/] [Bm] west,
I [/] [Bm] think upon Mac- [/] [D] kenzie,
David [/] [Em] Thompson, and the [/] [G] rest,
Who [/] [Bm] cracked the mountain [/] [D] ramparts, and
Did [/] [G] show a path for [/] [Bm] me,
To [/] [G] race the roaring [/] [D] Fraser, [A] to the [/] [Bm] sea. [/] [Bm]  


{soc}
Ah, for [/] [D] just one [/] [A] time,
I would [/] [G] take the Northwest [/] [Bm] Passage
To [/] [G] find the hand of [/] [D] Franklin,
Reaching [/] [Em] for the Beaufort [/] [G] Sea.
Tracing [/] [D] one warm [/] [A] line,
Through a [/] [G] land so wide and [/] [Bm] savage, and
[/] [G] Make a Northwest [/] [D] Passage, [A] to the [/] [D] sea. [/] [D] 
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How [/] [Bm] then am I so [/] [D] different,
From the [/] [G] first men through this [/] [Bm] way,
Like [/] [Bm] them, I left a [/] [D] settled life,
I [/] [Em] threw it all a- [/] [G] way,
To [/] [Bm] seek a Northwest [/] [D] Passage,
At the [/] [G] call of many [/] [Bm] men,
To [/] [G] find there, but the [/] [D] road back [A] home a- [/] [Bm] gain.  


{soc}
Ah, for [/] [D] just one [/] [A] time,
I would [/] [G] take the Northwest [/] [Bm] Passage
To [/] [G] find the hand of [/] [D] Franklin,
Reaching [/] [Em] for the Beaufort [/] [G] Sea.
Tracing [/] [D] one warm [/] [A] line,
Through a [/] [G] land so wide and [/] [Bm] savage, and
[/] [G] Make a Northwest [/] [D] Passage, [A] to the [/] [D] sea.
{eoc}


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