Stan Rogers – Northwest Passage (Guitar)
Key
-
Versions
(2)
Guitar Acoustic
Guitar
Auto-scroll
Speed:
1.0x
Chords
[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. / /
[Verse 1]
G / D Westward from the / Davis Strait, / A / Bm 'Tis / there was said to / lie, / G / D The / sea route to the / Orient, / A / D For / which so many / died, G / D Seeking gold and / glory, / A / Bm Leaving / weathered broken / bones, and / G / D - A / Em / / A / long forgotten / lonely cairn of / stones. / /
[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. / /
[Verse 2]
/ G / D Three / centuries there - / after, / A / Bm I take / passage over / land, / G / D In the / footsteps of brave / Kelso, / A / D Where his / "sea of flowers" be - / gan. / G / D Watching / cities rise be - / fore me, / A / Bm Then be - / hind me sink a - / gain, / G / D This / tardiest ex - / plorer, / A / Em Driving / hard, a - cross the / plains. / /
[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. / /
[Verse 3]
/ G / D And / through the night be - / hind the wheel, / A / Bm The / mileage clicking / west, / G / D I / think upon Mac - / kenzie, / A / D David / Thompson, and the / rest, / G / D Who / cracked the mountain / ramparts, and / A / Bm Did / show a path for / me, / G / D - A / Em / / To / race the roaring / Fraser, to the / sea. / /
[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. / /
[Verse 4]
/ G / D How / then am I so / different, / A / Bm From the / first men through this / way, / G / D Like / them, I left a / settled life, / A / D I / threw it all a - / way, / G / D To / seek a Northwest / Passage, / A / Bm At the / call of many / men, / G / D - A / Em / / To / find there, but the / road back home a - / gain. / /
[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. / /