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Northwest Passage by Judy Collins & Jonas Fjeld
Northwest Passage
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:3rd fret
INTRO:
G D C Em C G D G G G G
VERSE:
C G G D
Westward from the Davis Strait, 'tis there 'twas said to lie
C G G D Em
The sea route to the Orient for which so many died
C G G D Em
Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones
C G D Em Em D
And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones
CHORUS:
D G D C Em
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
C G Am G C
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
D G D C Em
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
C G D G G G G
And make a northwest passage to the sea
VERSE:
C G G Em D
Three centuries thereafter, I take passage overland
C G G D Em
In the footsteps of brave Kelso, where his sea of flowers began
C G G D Em
Watching cities rise before me, then behind me sink again
C G D Em D
This tardiest explorer, driving hard across the plain
CHORUS:
D G D C Em
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
C G Am G C
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
D G D C Em
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
C G D C G
And make a northwest passage to the sea
INSTRUMENTAL/SOLO:
C G G Em D
C G G D Em
C G G D Em
C G D Em Em Em Em7
VERSE:
C G G Em D
Through the night, behind the wheel, the mileage clicking west
C G G D Em7
I think upon Mackenzie, David Thompson and the rest
C G G D Em
Who cracked the mountain ramparts and layed a path for me
C G D Em Em D
To race the roaring Fraser to the sea
CHORUS:
D G D C Em
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
C G Am G C
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
D G D C Em
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
C G D G G G G
And make a northwest passage to the sea
VERSE:
Em C G G Em D
How then am I so different from the first men through this way?
C G G D Em
Like them, I left a settled life, I threw it all away
C G G D Em
To seek a northwest passage at the call of many men
C G D Em Em D
To find there but the road back home again
CHORUS:
D G D C Em
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
C G Am G C
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea
D G D C Em
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
C G D Em Em
And make a northwest passage to the sea
C G D G
And make a northwest passage to the sea
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