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northwest passage - storm weather shanty choir lyrics

westward from the davis strait
is there it’s 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

three centuries therеafter i take passage ovеrland
in the footsteps of brave kelsey
where his sea of flowers began
watching cities rise before me
then behind me sink again
this tardiest explorer, driving hard across the plain

ah, for just one time
i would take the northwest passage
to find the hand of franklin
reaching for the beaufort sea
tracing one warm line
through a land so wild and savage
and make a northwest passage to the sea
and through the night, behind the wheel
the mileage 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 a 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

- storm weather shanty choir lyrics

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