Artist: | Stan Rogers (English) |
User: | TA52477 |
Duration: | 200 seconds |
Delay: | 20 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Northwest Passage - Stan Rogers
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Ah for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
F C Dm F
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
C G F Am
Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage
F C G C
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea
C G F Am
Westward from the Davis Strait, 'tis there was said to lie
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The sea route to the orient for which so many died
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Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered broken bones
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And a long forgotten lonely cairn of stones
C G F Am
Ah for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
F C Dm F
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
C G F Am
Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage
F C G C
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea
C G F Am
Three centuries thereafter I take passage over land
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In the footsteps of brave Kelso where his "Sea of Flowers" began
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Watching cities rise before me then behind me sink again
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This tardiest explorer driving hard across the plains
C G F Am
Ah for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
F C Dm F
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
C G F Am
Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage
F C G C
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea
C G F Am
And through the night behind the wheel, the mileage clicking west
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I think upon Mackenzie, David Thompson, and the rest
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Who cracked the mountain ramparts and did show a path for me
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To race the roaring Fraser to the sea
C G F Am
Ah for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
F C Dm F
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
C G F Am
Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage
F C G C
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea
(Refrain - Instrumental)
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How then am I so different from the first men through this way
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Like them, I left a settled life, I threw it all away
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To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men
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To find there but the road back home again
C G F Am
Ah for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
F C Dm F
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
C G F Am
Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage
F C G C
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea