#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------## # Date: Fri, 12 Apr 96 17:31:48 EDT From: slehman@MIT.EDU (Scott A. Lehman) NORTHWEST PASSAGE - Stan Rogers from the album "Northwest Passage" (c) 1981 Fogarty's Cove Music Inc. D A G Bm Ah for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage G D Em G To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea D A G Bm Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage G D A D And make a Northwest Passage to the sea Westward from the Davis Strait, 'tis there 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 forgotten lonely cairn of stones Three centuries thereafter I take passage over land In the footsteps of brave Kelso where his "sea of flowers" began Watching cities rise before me then behind me sink again This tardiest explorer driving hard across the plains 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 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 To seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men To find there but the road back home again