Northwest Passage Chords

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[Verse 1]
[Am]CHORUS:
[G]Ah, for [Am]just[C] one t[Am]ime I
would take the [G]Northwest Passage
[Am]To find the hand[G] of Franklin
[Am]reac[C]hing for t[G]he Beaufort Sea
[Am]Tracing one [C]warm[G][Am]
[G]line [Am]through a
land so wide and savage
And make a Northwest
[G]Passage to the sea
[C]

[Verse 2]
[Am]VERSE 1
Westward from the Davis Strait 'tis [F]there
[G]it was said to lie
[Am]The sea route to the Orient
[C]for[Am] which so m[G]an[C]y died
[Am]Seeking gold and glory,
leaving weathered, [G]broken [Am]bones
And [C]a l[Am]ong-forgotten l[G]onely
lonely cairn of [C]stones
[Am]CHORUS
[G][C]

[Verse 3]
[G][Am][F][G]
[Am]
[F][G][Am][G]
[C]
[G][Am][F][G]
[Am]VERSE
[F]2[G][C]
[Am]Three centuries thereafter,
I [F]take [G]passage overland
In [Am]the footsteps of brave Kelso,
[C]whe[F]re his ""sea
of [C]flowers"" began
[G]Watching [Am]cities rise before [C]me,
[Am]then behind me sink [G]again
[Am]This tardiest expl[G]orer,
driving hard [F]across the plain
[G]CHO[Am]RUS
[G]VER[C]SE

[Verse 4]
[G][Am][F][G]
[Am][F][G][Am]
[C]3
[G]And through the[Am][F]
[G][Am][F][G]
[C]nig[G]ht,[Am] behind the[F]
wheel, the [G]mileage clicking west
I [Am]think upon Mackenzie,
[F]David Tho[G]mpson and the res[Am]t
Who cracked the mountain [F]ramparts and
did [G]show a path for [Am]me
[G]To [F]race the roaring Fraser
[G]to the sea[Am]

[Verse 5]
[G][C][G][Am]
[F][G][Am][F]
[G]CHO[Am]RUS[G][C][G]

[Verse 6]
[Am][F][Am][F]
[G]VERSE [C]4[G]
[Am]How then am I so diffe[F]rent from
the [G]first men through this way

[Verse 7]
[Am]Like them I left a [F]settled life,
I [G]threw it all [Am]away
To seek a Northwest Passage
[F]at[G][Am]
[F]the[G][Am][G][C]
[G]
[Am][F][G][Am]
[F]
[G]call [Am]of[C][G]
[Am]many[F] men[G][Am]
[F]To[G]

[Interlude 1]
[C][G][Am]
[F][G][Am][F]
[G]
[Am][G][C][G]

[Verse 8]
[Am][F]
[G]find [Am]there but the
road [F]back [G]home [C]again