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Verse 1
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10 ,000 pounds of price was set to find
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the Northwest Passage go down
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So many ships have sailed and yet the ice floes will not let them through
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1850 was the year we sailed out of Plymouth, Go Down!
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A mighty boat and a little fear,
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With steel in our hull and our hearts.
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We set a course for old Cape Horn,
then out across the ocean go down
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I worked the night,
watched dusk till dawn,
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while many a man had his dream
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From Baring Strait to the Fauxfoot seas,
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the air was growing colder, go down
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The sea like rock in a mighty freeze,
that winter we just had to stay
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And the snow came down
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To the gods on high, I would pray
Turn this ship around,
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from these frozen grounds,
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Let's behold what we've found,
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and find a way.
Summer came and the waters moved,
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The wind blew in our feet and go down.
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But the end of the strait
had not improved,
For the north of Banks Isle
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Crushed and held by the frozen cold,
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a candlelit prison go down
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A hot meal worth its weight in gold,
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McClure says we mustn't give in
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And the snow came down
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To the gods on high, I would pray
Turn this ship around,
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from these frozen grounds
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Let's be homeward bound,
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find a way
Months go by and we walk and sleep
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Rations getting smaller go down
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Enough to make a grown man weep,
The ice won't be melting this
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year.
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McClure set out for the Belvedere Isle
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In search of our salvation, go down
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And his bulldog spirit, mile on mile,
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Made up for him, landing us here
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In April 1853 the resolute said, go down
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At Melville Isle we found the note,
the told of our place and our plight
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We left that ship on the frozen tide,
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The barren, the born,
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and the died
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Three mountains looked out to the sea
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Their names written carver on wood
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On the northern star
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Back to England's green once more
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Held in high esteem by our enemies
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And ten thousand pounds reward
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Interlude 1
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Verse 2
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