Northwest Passage 2/4 Stan Rogers from the album "Northwest Passage" 1981 Fogarty's Cove Music Inc. Standard Tuning Two Strums per chord submitted by Ken Lee kandvlee@shaw.ca Chorus: / D / A Ah, for / just one / time, / G / Bm I would / take the Northwest / Passage / G / D To / find the hand of / Franklin, / Em / 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 Westward from the / Davis Strait, / G / Bm 'Tis / there was said to / lie, / G / D The / sea route to the / Orient, / G / Em For / which so many / died, D / A Seeking gold and / glory, / G / Bm Leaving / weathered broken / bones, and / G / D - A / D / / A / long forgotten / lonely cairn of / stones. / / Chorus: / D / A Three / centuries there - / after, / G / Bm I take / passage over / land, / G / D In the / footsteps of brave / Kelso, / Em / G Where his / "sea of flowers" be - / gan. / D / A Watching / cities rise be - / fore me, / G / Bm Then be - / hind me sink a - / gain, / G / D This / tardiest ex - / plorer, / D - A / D Driving / hard, a - cross the / plains. / / Chorus: / D / A And / through the night be - / hind the wheel, / G / Bm The / mileage clicking / west, / G / D I / think upon Mac - / kenzie, / Em / G David / Thompson, and the / rest, / D / A Who / cracked the mountain / ramparts, and / G / Bm Did / show a path for / me, / G / D - A / D / / To / race the roaring / Fraser, to the / sea. / / Chorus: / D / A How / then am I so / different, / G / Bm From the / first men through this / way, / G / D Like / them, I left a / settled life, / Em / G I / threw it all a - / way, / D / A To / seek a Northwest / Passage, / G / Bm At the / call of many / men, / G / D - A / D / / To / find there, but the / road back home a - / gain. / / Chorus: