Northwest Passage chords by Home Free

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

* means one strum down


Capo 2

Verse 1:
F                 C
Westward from the Davis Strait
    G                 Am
Tis there was said to lie
    F                C
The sea route to the Orient
    Am            C
For which so many died
F                G
Seeking gold and glory
        G                Am
Leaving weathered broken bones
      F              C      G        Am*
And a long forgotten lonely cairn of stones

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

Verse 2:
      F               C
Three centuries there after
       G            Am
I take passage over land
       F                  C
In the footsteps of brave Kelsey
           F                 C
Where his "sea of flowers" began
         F             C
Watching cities rise before me
       G             Am
Then behind me sink again
     F          C
This tardiest explorer
        F     G         Am*
Driving hard across the plains

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

Verse 3:
    F                   C
And through the night behind the wheel
    G                Am
The mileage clicking west
  F            C
I think upon Mckenzie
      F                C
David Thompson and the rest
    F                    C
Who cracked the mountain ramparts
        G               Am
And did show a path for me
   F                C      G      Am*
To race the roaring Fraser to the sea

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

Verse 4:
    F            C
How then am I so different
         G
From the first men through this way
     F             C
Like them I left a settled life
           G    Am
I threw it all away
   F                C
To seek a Northwest Passage
               G    F*
At the call of many men
   C                   F         G     Am*
To find there, but the road back home again

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

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

Outro:
Am                   G       G7     C
And make a Northwest Passage to the sea