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NORTHWEST PASSAGE - Stan Rogers The verses are sung acapella (without playing)
Ah for Cjust one Gtime I would Ftake the Northwest AmPassage To Ffind the hand of CFranklin reaching Dmfor the Beaufort FSea Tracing Cone warm Gline through a Fland so wide and Amsavage And Fmake a Northwest CPassage Gto the Csea
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
Ah for Cjust one Gtime I would Ftake the Northwest AmPassage To Ffind the hand of CFranklin reaching Dmfor the Beaufort FSea Tracing Cone warm Gline through a Fland so wide and Amsavage And Fmake a Northwest CPassage Gto the Csea
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
Ah for Cjust one Gtime I would Ftake the Northwest AmPassage To Ffind the hand of CFranklin reaching Dmfor the Beaufort FSea Tracing Cone warm Gline through a Fland so wide and Amsavage And Fmake a Northwest CPassage Gto the Csea
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 for Cjust one Gtime I would Ftake the Northwest AmPassage To Ffind the hand of CFranklin reaching Dmfor the Beaufort FSea Tracing Cone warm Gline through a Fland so wide and Amsavage And Fmake a Northwest CPassage Gto the Csea
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
Ah for Cjust one Gtime I would Ftake the Northwest AmPassage To Ffind the hand of CFranklin reaching Dmfor the Beaufort FSea Tracing Cone warm Gline through a Fland so wide and Amsavage And Fmake a Northwest CPassage Gto the Csea