Tablature northwest passage - Stan Rogers

          



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  Date: Fri, 12 Apr 96 17:31:48 EDT

  From: slehman@MIT.EDU (Scott A. Lehman)

  

  

  NORTHWEST PASSAGE - Stan Rogers

  from the album "Northwest Passage"

  (c) 1981 Fogarty's Cove Music Inc.

  

                 D        A            G                  Bm

          Ah for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage

             G                D                 Em               G

          To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea

                  D        A              G                Bm

          Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage

              G                D       A      D

          And make a Northwest Passage to the sea

  

  Westward from the Davis Strait, 'tis there was said to lie

  The sea route to the orient for which so many died

  Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered broken bones

  And a long forgotten lonely cairn of stones

  

  Three centuries thereafter I take passage over land

  In the footsteps of brave Kelso where his "sea of flowers" began

  Watching cities rise before me then behind me sink again

  This tardiest explorer driving hard across the plains

  

  And through the night behind the wheel, the mileage clicking west

  I think upon Mackenzie, David Thompson, and the rest

  Who cracked the mountain ramparts and did show a path for me

  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

  

   


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 Northwest passage, de Stan rogers 

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