Cifras
Northwest Passage

Tono: G

Introducción:

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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
         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