Judy Collins – Northwest Passage (Guitar)

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SONG: NORTHWEST PASSAGE ARTIST: JUDY COLLINS & JONAS FJELD TAB BY: DON CZARSKI EMAIL: [email protected] INTRO: G D C Em C G D G G G G VERSE:

 C                 G                  G                   D
Westward from the Davis Strait, 'tis there 'twas said to lie

     C                G          G        D    Em
The sea route to the Orient for which so many died

 C                G              G          D      Em
Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones

       C              G      D        Em   Em D
And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones

CHORUS:

D        G        D            C                  Em
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage

    C                G                Am       G        C
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea

 D       G        D              C                Em
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage

     C                G      D       G G G G
And make a northwest passage to the sea

VERSE:

       C              G             G       Em  D
Three centuries thereafter, I take passage overland

        C                  G                G      D       Em
In the footsteps of brave Kelso, where his sea of flowers began

          C             G               G       D     Em
Watching cities rise before me, then behind me sink again

      C           G      D       Em              D
This tardiest explorer, driving hard across the plain

CHORUS:

D        G        D            C                  Em
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage

    C                G                Am       G        C
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea

 D       G        D              C                Em
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage

     C                G      D       C  G
And make a northwest passage to the sea

INSTRUMENTAL/SOLO: C G G Em D C G G D Em C G G D Em C G D Em Em Em Em7 VERSE:

 C                    G                   G       Em       D
Through the night, behind the wheel, the mileage clicking west

   C             G             G        D      Em7
I think upon Mackenzie, David Thompson and the rest

     C                    G            G       D       Em
Who cracked the mountain ramparts and layed a path for me

    C                G     D      Em Em D
To race the roaring Fraser to the sea

CHORUS:

D        G        D            C                  Em
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage

    C                G                Am       G        C
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea

 D       G        D              C                Em
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage

     C                G      D       G  G G G
And make a northwest passage to the sea

VERSE:

Em     C            G                  G         Em           D
  How then am I so different from the first men through this way?

      C              G               G        D   Em
Like them, I left a settled life, I threw it all away

    C                G              G       D   Em
To seek a northwest passage at the call of many men

    C                  G         D     Em Em D
To find there but the road back home again

CHORUS:

D        G        D            C                  Em
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage

    C                G                Am       G        C
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea

 D       G        D              C                Em
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage

     C                G      D      Em  Em
And make a northwest passage to the sea

     C                G      D       G
And make a northwest passage to the sea