Northwest Passage 2/4 Stan Rogers
from the album "Northwest Passage" 1981 Fogarty's Cove Music Inc.
Standard Tuning Two Strums per chord submitted by Ken Lee
kandvlee@shaw.ca
Chorus:
/ D / A
Ah, for / just one / time,
/ G / Bm
I would / take the Northwest / Passage
/ G / D
To / find the hand of / Franklin,
/ Em / G
Reaching / for the Beaufort / Sea.
/ D / A
Tracing / one warm / line,
/ G / Bm
Through a / land so wide and / savage, and
G / D - A / D
Make a Northwest / Passage, to the / sea
D / A
Westward from the / Davis Strait,
/ G / Bm
'Tis / there was / said to / lie,
/ G / D
The / sea route to the / Orient,
/ G / Em
For / which so many / died,
D / A
Seeking gold and / glory,
/ G / Bm
Leaving / weathered broken / bones, and
/ G / D - A / D
A / long forgotten / lonely cairn of / stones
Chorus:
/ D / A
Three / centuries there - / after,
/ G / Bm
I take / passage over / land,
/ G / D
In the / footsteps of brave / Kelso,
/ Em / G
Here his / "sea of flowers" be - / gan.
/ D / A
Watching / cities rise be - / fore me,
/ G / Bm
Then be - / hind me sink a - / gain,
/ G / D
This / tardiest ex - / plorer driving / hard,
A / D
A - cross the / plains
Chorus:
/ D / A
And / through the night be - / hind the wheel,
/ G / Bm
The / mileage clicking / west,
/ G / D
I / think upon Mac - / kenzie,
/ Em / G
David / Thompson, and the / rest,
/ D / A
Who / cracked the mountain / ramparts, and
/ G / Bm
Did / show a path for / me,
/ G / D - A / D
To / race the roaring / Fraser, to the / sea..
Chorus:
/ D / A
How / then am I so / different,
/ G / Bm
From the / first men through this / way,
/ G / D
Like / them, I left a / settled life,
/ Em / G
I / threw it all a - / way,
/ D / A
To / seek a Northwest / Passage,
/ G / Bm
At the / call of many / men,
/ G / D - A /
To / find there, but the / road back home a - /
D
gain.
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