Northwest Passage (西北航道)-Jim Taylor

[ti:Northwest Passage] [ar:Jim Taylor] [al:Live At the Black Knight Pub] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Northwest Passage - Jim Taylor [00:11.11]Ah for just one time [00:14.86]I would take the Northwest Passage [00:18.44] [00:19.15]To find the hand of Franklin' [00:22.20]Reaching for the Beaufort Sea; [00:25.23] [00:25.91]Tracing one warm line [00:29.42]Through a land so wild and savage [00:32.98] [00:33.65]And make a Northwest Passage to the sea [00:38.86] [00:39.88]Westward from the Davis Strait [00:42.23]Tis there twas said to lie [00:44.45] [00:45.08]The sea route to the Orient [00:47.46]For which so many died; [00:49.75] [00:50.29]Seeking gold and glory [00:52.70]Leaving weathered broken bones [00:55.07] [00:55.74]And a long-forgotten lonely cairn of stones [01:01.16] [01:02.10]Ah for just one time [01:06.85]I would take the Northwest Passage [01:10.73] [01:11.24]To find the hand of Franklin' [01:14.57]Reaching for the Beaufort Sea; [01:18.53]Tracing one warm line [01:22.30]Through a land so wild and savage [01:26.86]And make a Northwest Passage to the sea [01:32.56] [01:33.76]Three centuries thereafter [01:35.65]I take passage overland [01:37.96] [01:38.59]In the footsteps of brave Kelso [01:41.10] [01:41.71]Where his "sea of flowers" began [01:44.26] [01:44.88]Watching cities rise before me [01:47.59]Then behind me sink again [01:49.81] [01:50.43]This tardiest explorer [01:52.61] [01:53.23]Driving hard across the plain [01:56.21] [01:57.02]Ah for just one time [02:01.64]I would take the Northwest Passage [02:05.56] [02:06.08]To find the hand of Franklin' [02:09.47]Reaching for the Beaufort Sea; [02:13.33]Tracing one warm line [02:17.19]Through a land so wild and savage [02:21.18] [02:21.75]And make a Northwest Passage to the sea [02:27.35] [02:28.36]And through the night [02:29.23]Behind the wheel the mileage clicking west [02:32.24] [02:32.91]I think upon Mackenzie [02:35.20]David Thompson and the rest [02:37.35] [02:38.19]Who cracked the mountain ramparts [02:40.44]And did show a path for me [02:43.23] [02:43.99]To race the roaring Fraser to the sea [02:49.53] [02:50.35]Ah for just one time [02:55.02]I would take the Northwest Passage [02:59.36]To find the hand of Franklin' [03:02.78]Reaching for the Beaufort Sea; [03:06.70]Tracing one warm line [03:10.49]Through a land so wild and savage [03:15.05]And make a Northwest Passage to the sea [03:20.70] [03:21.82]How then am I so different [03:23.47]From the first men through this way [03:25.91] [03:26.67]Like them I left a settled life [03:28.70] [03:29.21]I threw it all away [03:31.24] [03:31.84]To seek a Northwest Passage [03:33.97]At the call of many men [03:36.13] [03:36.84]And find there but the road back home again [03:43.70] [03:44.43]Ah for just one time [03:49.06]I would take the Northwest Passage [03:53.56]To find the hand of Franklin' [03:56.87]Reaching for the Beaufort Sea; [04:00.78]Tracing one warm line [04:04.60]Through a land so wild and savage [04:09.18]And make a Northwest Passage to the sea