Northwest Passage Chords by Stan Rogers

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