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Northwest Passage - Stan Rogers
To find there but
Like them I left a settled life
Passage To find the hand of
Passage-
To find the hand of
Ah for just one time I would
take the Northwest Passage
Franklin reaching for the
To find the hand of Franklin
reaching for the Beaufort Sea
Franklin reaching for
Beaufort Sea tracing one warm
Tracing one warm line through
A land so wild and savage
line through a land so wild
And make a Northwest
Passage to the sea
I threw it all away
the Beaufort Sea
and savage And make a
Westward from the Davis Strait
tis there it was said to lie
Northwest Passage to the sea
The sea route to the Orient
for which so many died
Tracing one warm line-throug
h a
And through the night behind the
Seeking gold and glory
Leaving weathered broken bones
wheel -the mileage clicking west
And a long-forgot
ten
lonely cairn of stones
the road back home again
To seek a Northwest Passage
land so wild and savage-
Andmake
I think upon Mackenzie
Ah for just one time - I would
take the Northwest Passage to
David Thompson and the rest -who
Find the hand of Franklin
reaching for the Beaufort
Sea
a Northwest Passage to the sea
cracked the mountain ramparts
Tracing one warm line through a
land so wild and savage and make
and did show a path for me
A Northwest-
Passage to the sea
ThreeCentur
ies thereafter-
I take
at the call of many men
How then am I so different from
To race the roaring
passage overland-in
theFootstep
s
of brave Kelso where his sea of
Fraser to the sea
flowers began-
Watching cities
rise before me - then behind me
the first men through this way
Ah for just one time
sink againThis tardiest explorer
driving hard across the plain
I would take the Northwest
Ah for just one time I
would take the Northwest
