The Longest Johns – The Northwest Passage (Guitar)

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        G
A long forgotten lonely cairn of stones.

        D        A
Ah, for just one time,

        G                  Bm
I would take the Northwest Passage

   G                D
To find the hand of Franklin,

         Em      F#m      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.

      G                 D
Three centuries there - after,

       A            Bm
I take passage over land,

       G                  D
In the footsteps of brave Kelsey,

           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                G
Driving hard, across the plains.

        D        A
Ah, for just one time,

        G                  Bm
I would take the Northwest Passage

   G                D
To find the hand of Franklin,

         Em      F#m      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.

    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      G   
To race the roaring Fraser, to the sea.

D   A   D        A
Ah, for just one time,

        G                  Bm
I would take the Northwest Passage

   G                D
To find the hand of Franklin,

         Em      F#m      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.

    G            D
How then am I so different from

    A                      Bm
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, and

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

        D        A
Ah, for just one time,

        G                  Bm
I would take the Northwest Passage

   G                D
To find the hand of Franklin,

         Em      F#m      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.

        D        A
Ah, for just one time,

        G                  Bm
I would take the Northwest Passage

   G                D
To find the hand of Franklin,

         Em      F#m      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      G
Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea, and 

G                D        A      Bm
Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea, and 

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