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NORTHWEST PASSAGE Time: 4/4 Key: D - Stan Rogers, 1981, on: Northwest Passage CHORUS: 1 5 4 6m Ah for just one time, I would take the Northwest Passage 4 1 2m 4 To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea 1 5 4 6m Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage 4 1 5 1 * And make a Northwest Passage to the sea 1 5 4 6m Westward from the Davis Straight, 'tis there 'twas said to lie 4 1 2m 4 The sea route to the Orient for which so many died 1 5 4 6m Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered broken bones 4 1 5 1 * And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones 1 5 4 6m Three centuries there-after, I take passage over-land 4 1 2m 4 In the footsteps of brave Kelso, where his "Sea of Flowers" be-gan 1 5 4 6m Watching cities rise be-fore me, then be-hind me sink a-gain 4 1 5 1 * This tardiest ex-plorer, driving hard across the plain 1 5 4 6m And through the night, be-hind the wheel, the mileage clicking west 4 1 2m 4 I think upon Mac-kenzie, David Thompson, and the rest 1 5 4 6m Who cracked the mountain ramparts, and did show a path for me 4 1 5 1 * 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 NOTES: - Rogers sings acapella SYMBOLS: - Asterisk (*) = new measure, play same chord - Period (.) = 1/8 note rest at start of a measure - Underline(_) = sustain note into next measure CHORDS (Number System): - Example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 - Key of C: C D E F G A B - Detailed description: /pub/guitar/other_stuff/numbering_system.txt |
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