[Estribillo]

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

[Primera Parte]

C                 G
Westward from the Davis Strait
      D                  Em
'Tis  there was said to  lie
     C                 G
The  sea route to the  Orient
     Am               C
For  which so many  died
C                 G
Seeking gold and  glory
         D                 Em
Leaving  weathered broken  bones, and
   C               G      D         Em
A  long forgotten  lonely cairn of  stones

[Estribillo]

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

[Segunda Parte]

      C                 G
Three centuries there - after
       D            Em
I take passage over land
       C                  G
In the footsteps of brave Kelso
          Am                  C
Where his "sea of flowers" be-gan
         C             G
Watching cities rise before me
          D               Em
Then be - hind me sink a -gain
     C             G
This tardiest ex - plorer
         D                   Em
Driving  hard, a - cross the plains

[Estribillo]

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

[Terceira Parte]

    C                      G
And through the night be - hind the wheel
    D                Em
The / mileage clicking west
  C                G
I think upon Mac - kenzie
      Am                C
David Thompson, and the rest
    C                    G
Who cracked the mountain ramparts, and
    D               Em
Did show a path for me
   C                G       D      G
To race the roaring / Fraser, to the sea

[Estribillo]

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

[Quarta Parte]

    C            G
How then am I so different
         D                      Em
From the first men through this way
     C              G
Like them, I left a settled life
  Am               C
I threw it all a - way
   C                G
To seek a Northwest Passage
       D            Em
At the call of many men
   C                   G         D        Em
To find there, but the road back home a - gain

[Estribillo]

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