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