Stan Rogers – Northwest Passage (Guitar Acoustic)

        G        D
Ah, for just one time,

        C                 Em
I would take the Northwest Passage

    C               G
To find the hand of Franklin,

         Am               C
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea.

        G        D
Tracing one warm line,

          C                Em
Through a land so wide and savage, and

C                G        D       G      
Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea.    

C                 G
Westward from the Davis Strait,

      D                  Em
'Tis  there was said to  lie,

     C                 G
The  sea route to the  Orient,

     Am               C
For  which so many  died,

C                 G
Seeking gold and  glory,

         D                 Em
Leaving  weathered broken  bones, and

   C               G      D         Em       
A  long forgotten  lonely cairn of  stones. 

        G        D
Ah, for just one time,

        C                 Em
I would take the Northwest Passage

    C               G
To find the hand of Franklin,

         Am               C
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea.

        G        D
Tracing one warm line,

          C                Em
Through a land so wide and savage, and

C                G        D       G      
Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea.    

      C                 G
Three centuries there - after,

       D            Em
I take passage over land,

       C                  G
In the footsteps of brave Kelso,

          Am                  C
Where his "sea of flowers" be-gan.

         C             G
Watching cities rise before me,

          D               Em
Then be - hind me sink a -gain,

     C             G
This tardiest ex - plorer,

         D                   Em
Driving  hard, a - cross the plains. 

        G        D
Ah, for just one time,

        C                 Em
I would take the Northwest Passage

    C               G
To find the hand of Franklin,

         Am               C
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea.

        G        D
Tracing one warm line,

          C                Em
Through a land so wide and savage, and

C                G        D       G      
Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea.    

    C                      G
And through the night be - hind the wheel,

    D                Em
The / mileage clicking west,

  C                G
I think upon Mac - kenzie,

      Am                C
David Thompson, and the rest,

    C                    G
Who cracked the mountain ramparts, and

    D               Em
Did show a path for me,

   C                G       D      G     
To race the roaring / Fraser, to the sea.  

        G        D
Ah, for just one time,

        C                 Em
I would take the Northwest Passage

    C               G
To find the hand of Franklin,

         Am               C
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea.

        G        D
Tracing one warm line,

          C                Em
Through a land so wide and savage, and

C                G        D       G      
Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea.    

    C            G
How then am I so different,

         D                      Em
From the first men through this way,

     C              G
Like them, I left a settled life,

  Am               C
I threw it all a - way,

   C                G
To seek a Northwest Passage,

       D            Em
At the call of many men,

   C                   G         D        Em     
To find there, but the road back home a - gain. 

        G        D
Ah, for just one time,

        C                 Em
I would take the Northwest Passage

    C               G
To find the hand of Franklin,

         Am               C
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea.

        G        D
Tracing one warm line,

          C                Em
Through a land so wide and savage, and

C                G        D       G      
Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea.