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: / C / F Ah, for / just one / time, / F / Am I would / take the Northwest / Passage / F / C To / find the hand of / Franklin, / Dm / F Reaching / for the Beaufort / Sea. / C / F Tracing / one warm / line, / F / Am Through a / land so wide and / savage, and G / D - A / D / / Make a Northwest / Passage, to the / sea. / / C / F Westward from the / Davis Strait, / F / Am 'Tis / there was said to / lie, / F / C The / sea route to the / Orient, / F / Dm For / which so many / died, C / F Seeking gold and / glory, / F / Am Leaving / weathered broken / bones, and / G / D - A / D / / A / long forgotten / lonely cairn of / stones. / / Chorus: / C / F Three / centuries there - / after, / F / Am I take / passage over / land, / F / C In the / footsteps of brave / Kelso, / Dm / F Where his / "sea of flowers" be - / gan. / C / F Watching / cities rise be - / fore me, / F / Am Then be - / hind me sink a - / gain, / F / C This / tardiest ex - / plorer, / C - F / C Driving / hard, a - cross the / plains. / / Chorus: / C / F And / through the night be - / hind the wheel, / F / Am The / mileage clicking / west, / F / C I / think upon Mac - / kenzie, / Dm / F David / Thompson, and the / rest, / C / F Who / cracked the mountain / ramparts, and / F / Am Did / show a path for / me, / G / D - A / D / / To / race the roaring / Fraser, to the / sea. / / Chorus: / C / F How / then am I so / different, / F / Am From the / first men through this / way, / F / C Like / them, I left a / settled life, / Dm / F I / threw it all a - / way, / C / F To / seek a Northwest / Passage, / F / Am At the / call of many / men, / G / D - A / D / / To / find there, but the / road back home a - / gain. / / Chorus:

Stan Rogers - Northwest passage