Chords for Northwest Passage - Stan Rogers Cover (2023)

_ [D] Ah, for _ just one [E] time [D] I will take the Northwest _ [N] Passage
To find the [D] Hand of Franklin _ [Em] reaching for the [G] Beaufort Sea
[D] Tracing one _ [A] warm line [D] through [G] a land so [D] wild and [Bm]
savage
[A] And make [G] a [A] Northwest Passage [Bm] to the [D] _ _
sea
_ _ _ [G] _ Whistled from [D] the _ Demonstrators [A] there to a certain lie
_ [D] [G] The sea route to [D] the Orient for [A] which so many _ died
_ [G] _
Seeking gold [D] and glory, leaving _
[A] _ withered, [Bm] broken bones
[G] And _ forgotten _ [D] lonely _ [Bm] cairn of _ _ stones
[A] Ah, _ [D] for just [A] one _ _ [G] time I will take [A] the [B] Northwest _ Passage
[G] To find the [D] Hand of Franklin [E] reaching for [Bm] the [G] Beaufort Sea
[D] Tracing one [A] warm line through [G] a land so [A] [B] wild and savage
_ [G] _ And make a [D] Northwest [A] Passage to [D] the sea _ _ _ _
[G] Three centuries _ [D] thereafter I [A] take passage over land _
[D] [G] And the footsteps of [D] brave can see where [A] his sea of flowers began
[G] Watching cities rise [D] before me, then [A] behind me [Bm] think again
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] This arduous explorer I [Bm] need, gone across the _ plain
Ah, [A] _ _ [E] _ _ _ [A#]
for just one time _ [G] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ I [D] will take the Northwest [E] Passage
To find the Hand of Franklin reaching for [G] the Beaufort Sea
With [D] all _ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [D] _ [A] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] this _ [G] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ clicking, _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] was it jamming?
[A] Something [B] in the rest
Who could _ _ [G] _ _ _ [A] catch a path [D] to _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ [C#] _ _ [D] the _ _ sea?
Ah, _ _ _ for [A] just one time _ _ [G] _ _ [B] I will take the Northwest Passage
[G] To find _ [D] the Hand of Franklin [E] reaching for the [D] [G] Beaufort Sea
[D] Tracing one warm [A] line _ [G] _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ [Bm] _ through [G] a land _ [D] so wild and savage
And make a Northwest Passage to the _ sea
Oh, _ [G] then am I so [D] different from the [A] first men through this way
I [G] fed my left [D] assets a life I [A] threw it all away
[Em] To [G] seek a Northwest _
[D] Passage at the [A] call of many [B] men
[F#m] [Em] To [G] find the road [D] back [Bm] home _ again _
_ _ Ah, _ [A] _ [D] _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _
for just one time [E] I will take the Northwest Passage
To find the Hand of Franklin reaching for [G] the Beaufort Sea
[D] Tracing one [A] warm line _
_ [G] _ [Bm] through a land so wild and savage
And [G] make a [D] Northwest Passage to the _ sea
I _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ will [G] take [A] the Northwest [B] _ Passage
[G] To find the Hand [D] of Franklin [E] reaching for [G] the Beaufort Sea
[D] Tracing one [A] warm line through [G] a land so [A] [B] wild and savage
[G] And make a [D] Northwest [A] Passage to [D] the sea _
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