G        D 
Ah, for just one time 
        C                 Em 
I would take the Northwest Passage 
    C               G 
To find the hand of Franklin 
         Am               C 
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea 
        G        D 
Tracing one warm line 
          C                Em 
Through a land so wide and savage, and 
C                G        D       G 
Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea 


C                 G 
Westward from the Davis Strait 
      D                  Em 
'Tis  there was said to  lie 
     C                 G 
The  sea route to the  Orient 
     Am               C 
For  which so many  died 
C                 G 
Seeking gold and  glory 
         D                 Em 
Leaving  weathered broken  bones, and 
   C               G      D         Em 
A  long forgotten  lonely cairn of  stones 



        G        D 
Ah, for just one time 
        C                 Em 
I would take the Northwest Passage 
    C               G 
To find the hand of Franklin 
         Am               C 
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea 
        G        D 
Tracing one warm line 
          C                Em 
Through a land so wide and savage, and 
C                G        D       G 
Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea 



      C                 G 
Three centuries there - after 
       D            Em 
I take passage over land 
       C                  G 
In the footsteps of brave Kelso 
          Am                  C 
Where his "sea of flowers" be-gan 
         C             G 
Watching cities rise before me 
          D               Em 
Then be - hind me sink a -gain 
     C             G 
This tardiest ex - plorer 
         D                   Em 
Driving  hard, a - cross the plains 


        G        D 
Ah, for just one time 
        C                 Em 
I would take the Northwest Passage 
    C               G 
To find the hand of Franklin 
         Am               C 
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea 
        G        D 
Tracing one warm line 
          C                Em 
Through a land so wide and savage, and 
C                G        D       G 
Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea 

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    C                      G 
And through the night be - hind the wheel 
    D                Em 
The / mileage clicking west 
  C                G 
I think upon Mac - kenzie 
      Am                C 
David Thompson, and the rest 
    C                    G 
Who cracked the mountain ramparts, and 
    D               Em 
Did show a path for me 
   C                G       D      G 
To race the roaring / Fraser, to the sea 



        G        D 
Ah, for just one time 
        C                 Em 
I would take the Northwest Passage 
    C               G 
To find the hand of Franklin 
         Am               C 
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea 
        G        D 
Tracing one warm line 
          C                Em 
Through a land so wide and savage, and 
C                G        D       G 
Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea 



    C            G 
How then am I so different 
         D                      Em 
From the first men through this way 
     C              G 
Like them, I left a settled life 
  Am               C 
I threw it all a - way 
   C                G 
To seek a Northwest Passage 
       D            Em 
At the call of many men 
   C                   G         D        Em 
To find there, but the road back home a - gain 



        G        D 
Ah, for just one time 
        C                 Em 
I would take the Northwest Passage 
    C               G 
To find the hand of Franklin 
         Am               C 
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea 
        G        D 
Tracing one warm line 
          C                Em 
Through a land so wide and savage, and 
C                G        D       G 
Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea