Rogers Stan - Northwest Passage Num guitar tab

From: Barrie McCombs

NORTHWEST PASSAGE Time: 4/4 Key: D

- Stan Rogers, 1981, on: Northwest Passage

CHORUS:

1 5 4 6m

Ah for just one time, I would take the Northwest Passage

4 1 2m 4

To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea

1 5 4 6m

Tracing one warm line through a land so wide and savage

4 1 5 1 *

And make a Northwest Passage to the sea

1 5 4 6m

Westward from the Davis Straight, 'tis there 'twas said to lie

4 1 2m 4

The sea route to the Orient for which so many died

1 5 4 6m

Seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered broken bones

4 1 5 1 *

And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones

1 5 4 6m

Three centuries there-after, I take passage over-land

4 1 2m 4

In the footsteps of brave Kelso, where his "Sea of Flowers" be-gan

1 5 4 6m

Watching cities rise be-fore me, then be-hind me sink a-gain

4 1 5 1 *

This tardiest ex-plorer, driving hard across the plain

1 5 4 6m

And through the night, be-hind the wheel, the mileage clicking west

4 1 2m 4

I think upon Mac-kenzie, David Thompson, and the rest

1 5 4 6m

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

4 1 5 1 *

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

NOTES:

- Rogers sings acapella

SYMBOLS:

- Asterisk (*) = new measure, play same chord

- Period (.) = 1/8 note rest at start of a measure

- Underline(_) = sustain note into next measure

CHORDS (Number System):

- Example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

- Key of C: C D E F G A B

- Detailed description: /pub/guitar/other_stuff/numbering_system.txt

- Submitted by: Barrie McCombs (bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca)