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Introdução:
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Ah, for just one time
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I would take the Northwest Passage
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To find the hand of Franklin
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Reaching for the Beaufort Sea
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Tracing one warm line
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Through a land so wide and savage, and
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Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea
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Westward from the Davis Strait
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'Tis there was said to lie
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The sea route to the Orient
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For which so many died
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Seeking gold and glory
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Leaving weathered broken bones, and
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A long forgotten lonely cairn of stones
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Ah, for just one time
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I would take the Northwest Passage
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To find the hand of Franklin
Am C
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea
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Tracing one warm line
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Through a land so wide and savage, and
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Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea
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Three centuries there - after
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I take passage over land
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In the footsteps of brave Kelso
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Where his "sea of flowers" be-gan
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Watching cities rise before me
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Then be - hind me sink a -gain
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This tardiest ex - plorer
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Driving hard, a - cross the plains
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Ah, for just one time
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I would take the Northwest Passage
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To find the hand of Franklin
Am C
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea
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Tracing one warm line
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Through a land so wide and savage, and
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Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea
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And through the night be - hind the wheel
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The / mileage clicking west
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I think upon Mac - kenzie
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David Thompson, and the rest
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Who cracked the mountain ramparts, and
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Did show a path for me
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To race the roaring / Fraser, to the sea
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Ah, for just one time
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I would take the Northwest Passage
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To find the hand of Franklin
Am C
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea
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Tracing one warm line
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Through a land so wide and savage, and
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Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea
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How then am I so different
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From the first men through this way
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Like them, I left a settled life
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I threw it all a - way
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To seek a Northwest Passage
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At the call of many men
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To find there, but the road back home a - gain
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Ah, for just one time
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I would take the Northwest Passage
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To find the hand of Franklin
Am C
Reaching for the Beaufort Sea
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Tracing one warm line
C Em
Through a land so wide and savage, and
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Make a Northwest Passage, to the sea