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the sheringham shantymen - north west passage lyrics

[chorus: lead 1, all]
ah, for just one time
i would take the northwest passage
to find the hand of franklin reachin’ for the beaufort sea
tracin’ one warm line, through a land so wide and savage
and make a northwest passage to the sea

[verse 1: leads 2 & 3]
westward from the davis strait, ’tis there was said to lie
the sea+route to the orient, for which so many died
seeking gold and glory, leaving weathered, broken bones
and a long+forgotten, lonely cairn of stones

[chorus: lead 1, all]
ah, for just one time
i would takе the northwest passage
to find thе hand of franklin reachin’ for the beaufort sea
tracin’ one warm line, through a land so wide and savage
and make a northwest passage to the sea

[verse 2: leads 2 & 3]
three centuries thereafter, i take passage over land
in the footsteps of brave kelso, where his sea of flowers began
watching cities rise before me, then behind me sink again
this tardiest explorer, driving hard across the plain
[chorus: lead 1, all]
ah, for just one time
i would take the northwest passage
to find the hand of franklin reachin’ for the beaufort sea
tracin’ one warm line, through a land so wide and savage
and make a northwest passage to the sea

[verse 3: leads 2 & 3]
and through the night, behind the wheel, the milage cl!cking west
i think upon mackenzie, david thompson and the rest
who cracked the mountain ramparts, and did show a path for me
to race the roaring fraser to the sea

[verse 4: leads 2 & 3]
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
[chorus: lead 1, all]
ah, for just one time
i would take the northwest passage
to find the hand of franklin reachin’ for the beaufort sea
tracin’ one warm line, through a land so wide and savage
and make a northwest passage to the sea

- the sheringham shantymen lyrics

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