{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-song-js","path":"/northwest-passage/","result":{"data":{"markdownRemark":{"html":"<p><strong><em>[Chorus]</em></strong></p>\n<p>Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage\nTo find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea\nTracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage\nAnd make a Northwest Passage to the sea</p>\n<p><strong><em>[Solo]</em></strong></p>\n<p>Westward from the Davis Strait 'tis there 'twas said to lie\nThe sea route to the Orient for which so many died\nSeeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones\nAnd a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones</p>\n<p><strong><em>[Chorus]</em></strong></p>\n<p>Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage\nTo find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea\nTracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage\nAnd make a Northwest Passage to the sea</p>\n<p><strong><em>[Solo]</em></strong></p>\n<p>Three centuries thereafter, I take passage overland\nIn the footsteps of brave Kelso, where his \"sea of flowers\" began\nWatching cities rise before me, then behind me sink again\nThis tardiest explorer, driving hard across the plain</p>\n<p><strong><em>[Chorus]</em></strong></p>\n<p>Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage\nTo find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea\nTracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage\nAnd make a Northwest Passage to the sea</p>\n<p><strong><em>[Solo]</em></strong></p>\n<p>And through the night, behind the wheel, the mileage clicking west\nI think upon Mackenzie, David Thompson and the rest\nWho cracked the mountain ramparts and did show a path for me\nTo race the roaring Fraser to the sea</p>\n<p><strong><em>[Chorus]</em></strong></p>\n<p>Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage\nTo find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea\nTracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage\nAnd make a Northwest Passage to the sea</p>\n<p><strong><em>[Solo]</em></strong></p>\n<p>How then am I so different from the first men through this way?\nLike them, I left a settled life, I threw it all away\nTo seek a Northwest Passage at the call of many men\nTo find there but the road back home again</p>\n<p><strong><em>[Chorus]</em></strong></p>\n<p>Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage\nTo find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea\nTracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage\nAnd make a Northwest Passage to the sea</p>","frontmatter":{"title":"Northwest Passage","tags":null,"youtube":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/TVY8LoM47xI"}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"/northwest-passage/"}},"staticQueryHashes":["3649515864","63159454"]}