Key: A minor
Verse 1
Am
G
C
G
Oh for just one time
F
Am
I would take the Northwest Pas sage
To find the hand of Franklin
Dm
F
reaching for the Beaufort Sea
C
G
Tracing one more line
F
C
Am
through a land so wide and savage
and make a northwest pas
G
C
sage to the sea.
Am
C
G
Westward from the Davis Strait
sea route to the Orient,
G
C
for which so many died.
C
Am
reaching weathered, broken bonds,
and long -forgotten, lonely carnival.
G
C
G
Oh, for just one time,
F
Am
I would take the Northwest Pas sage
to find the hand of Franklin
F
C
G
tracing one more line
F
Am
through a land so wide and savage,
And make a northwest pas
G
C
sage to the sea.
G
Am
G
Three cen turies thereafter,
I take passage of land
G
C
where his sea of flowers began.
C
Am
then behind me sink again.
The tardiest explorer
driving hard across the plain.
G
C
G
Ah, for just one time
F
Am
I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin
C
Dm
reaching for the Beaufort Sea.
F
C
G
Tracing one more line
F
Am
through a land so wide and sav age
And make a north -west
G
C
passage to the sea
G
Am
The mileage clicking west
I think upon Mackenzie, David,
C
Am
And did show a path for me
To raise the roarin' Frasier to the sea.
G
C
G
Ah, for just one time
F
Am
I would take the Northwest Pas sage
To find the hand of Franklin
F
C
G
Tracing one more line
F
Am
through a land so wide and savage,
And make a northwest
C
G
C
passage to the sea.
Am
C
How then am I so different
G
Am
from the first men through this way?
Am
C
G
I threw it all away.
C
Am
To seek a northwest passage
C
Am
at the call of many men,
To find there but the road back home again
G
C
G
But for just one time
F
Am
I would take the Northwest Passage
F
C
G
Trace in one more line
F
Am
Through a land so wide and savage
And make a northwest passage
to the sea.
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