ROGERS STAN - "northwest passage" Tablature

From: Barrie McCombs <bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca>

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)