Northwest Passage Chords by The Dreadnoughts, Stan Rogers, Stan Rogers

[G] _ [D] Westward from the Davis Strait, Tisvert was said to lie,
A sea route to the Orient, for which so many [Bm]
[D] died.
Seeking gold and glory, leaving broken [Bm] weathered [D] balls,
And a long-forgotten, lonely [Bm] cairnstone.
[D]
Ah, for just one time, I would take the Northwest [Bm]
[D] Passage,
[G] To [D] find the hand of Franklin, reaching for the Beaufort Sea,
Tracing one [D] warm line, through [G] a [D] land so wild [Bm] and savage,
[G] And [D] make a Northwest Passage to the sea.
Three centuries thereafter, I take passage over land,
In the footsteps of brave Kelso, where his sea [Bm] of flowers began,
[G] Watching cities [D] rise before me, then behind [Bm] me sink [G] again,
This [D] tardiest explorer, driving [Em] [Bm] hard across the plain.
[D] Ah, for just [A] one [D] time, I [G] would [Bm] take the Northwest Passage,
[G] To [D] find the hand of Franklin, reaching for [G] the [A] Beaufort Sea,
[D] Tracing one [A] warm line, [G] through a land [Bm] so wild and [G] savage,
[D] And make a Northwest Passage to the sea.
[G] And through the [D] night, behind the wheel, the mileage clicking [F#m] [Bm] west,
I [G] think [D] upon McKenzie, David Thompson, [Bm] and the [G] rest,
Who cracked the [D] mountain ramparts, and did show [Bm] a path for me,
[G] To race [D] the RRN Fraser [Bm] to the sea.
[F#m] [D] Ah, for just one time, [G] I would take [Bm] the Northwest [G] Passage,
To [D] find the hand of Franklin, [Em] reaching [D] for the Beaufort [A] Sea,
[D] Tracing one [A] warm line, [G] through a land [Bm] so wild and savage,
[G] And [D] make a Northwest [Bm] Passage to the sea.
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[Bm] _ _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ [D] _
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_ _ How then am I so different, from the first [A] men through this way?
[D] Like them I left a settled life, I threw [Bm] it all away,
[G] To seek a [D] Northwest Passage, at the call [Bm] of many men,
[D] To find there but the road [Bm] back home again.
[A] [D] Ah, for [A] just one time, [G] I would take [Bm] the Northwest [G] Passage,
[D] To find the hand of Franklin, [Em] reaching [D] for [G] the [A] Beaufort Sea,
[D] Tracing [A] one warm line, [G] through a land [Bm] so wild and savage,
[G] [D] And make a Northwest Passage to the sea.
_ _ [G] And make a [D] Northwest [A] Passage to [D] the sea. _ _ _ _ _ _