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: / / 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 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 Chorus: / / Three / centuries there - / after, / / I take / passage over / land, / / In the / footsteps of brave / Kelso, / / Here his / "sea of flowers" be - / gan. / / Watching / cities rise be - / fore me, / / Then be - / hind me sink a - / gain, / / This / tardiest ex - / plorer driving / hard, / A - cross the / plains Chorus: / / And / through the night be - / hind the wheel, / / The / mileage clicking / west, / / I / think upon Mac - / kenzie, / / 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.. Chorus: / / How / then am I so / different, / / From the / first men through this / way, / / Like / them, I left a / settled life, / / I / threw it all a - / way, / / To / seek a Northwest / Passage, / / At the / call of many / men, / G / D - A / To / find there, but the / road back home a - / gain. Chorus: