Man you gotta love this song. It's like Colors of the Wind but for boys :DDDD

Thanks for sharing that beautiful and honorable memory, Paul Shields.

Finally got curious enough about Unleash the Archers cover that I had a feeling there was an original

Thumbs up if the last episode of Due South brought you here

Such a beautiful, haunting song to celebrate the myths of colonialism. Makes it harder to see the truths of dispossession and theft.

Arguably the greatest AMERICAN folk singer of all time.

trying to sing along to this in key is like trying to keep up with race horse R.I.P. Stan Rogers x

I spent 10 years working the high-Arctic. Noatak and Kobuk rivers. This is my theme song. His premature passing is such an indescribable loss.

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I thought "Unleash The Archers" cooked up this masterpiece but turns out it was just a cover, happy to have found the original at least.

The backup singer is Stan's brother Garnet, I think. I'm a northern American who's lived in the south for many years, and Rogers' music keeps me from going bonkers sometimes. So powerful.

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 Westward from the Davis Strait 'tis there 'twas 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 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 Three centuries thereafter, I take passage overland 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 clicking 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 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 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 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

The song is haunting. Thank you Stan Rogers.

Stan Rogers, one of my dads favorite Canadian folk singers. Rip mr. Roger's and dad.

THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION WAS DOOMED. LACK OF PLANNING, PROPER CLOTHING & FOOD, LED THEM TO A CRUSHED - BY- ICE - SHIP,AND THE MEN WALKED AND WALKED IN DELERIUM, AND STARVED, EACH ONE IN HIS OWN WAY----A HARSH WORLD THEY WERE IN, AND THEY UNDERESTIMATED THE COLD, AND WERE NOT PREPARED.

It's criminal that this isn't the Canadian national anthem

i don't sing. but i do when i play this. it is indeed infectious!

I was 36 years old when I first heard my national anthem. Much ink has been spilled over Canadian national identity, and now I discover that Stan Rogers figured it out over 40 years ago.

Listening while awaiting feedback on a college application in Alaska, where I'll be a marine biology student, and of course, a sailor. Never thought this would ever be somewhat relatable lol

Grandios 🤘🏻 💪🏼 🫡

My grandfather used to play this for me when I was young, and it was honestly more emotion than I knew what to do with. Recently, I had the Unleash the Archers cover of it come on my Pandora, and a whole flood of memories came back to me. Had to come find the original again. Still as hauntingly beautiful as I remember it being.

Greetings from Georgia 🇬🇪 fellow Canadians 🇨🇦❤

Makes sense Unleash the Archers are a Canadian power metal band 😅

Unleash the Archers covered this song

Faustian spirit: the song

Damn, i can take a 10' metal panel to the shoulder without flinching, but this song just breaks me. RIP to all the real men who explored and faced unknown fears in the name of progress for humankind.

Love ❤ this song.that backround singer pulls it All together

A Punk anthem.

when i die i want this played at my funearl with no explanation just the beauty of this song

"OHHHH FOR JUUUST ONE TIME" I say that a lot when I start drinking lol <3

I'm not crying you're 😭

The true Canadian national anthem. Happy Canada Day!

One of the manliest songs ever

Born too late to explore the world. Born too soon to explore the stars. _sigh_

Great song and great talent! Truly tragic that he had to die so young. What does the hand of Franklin refer to?

I'm trying to sing this fucking song but I just keep crying man.

40 years since his passing today

Here after watching re-runs of Due South on KZbin, where this brilliant, emotive song was featured. How brave those men were, forging through unknown, inhospitable territory in search of a dream.

It's in the form of a call and response that sailors would sing when doing a task together such as hauling up a large sail. It gives the song a real nautical feeling which goes so well with the story. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2jKioiEnZ6WjLM

this should be Canada s National anthem

It's a magnificent song and even if it is about Stan's own journey it commemorates the Franklin Expedition beautifully. RIP a lot of very brave men.

no song makes me cry as this one does - or makes me feel more Canadian.

My Old Man New Him God Rest His Soul

40 years since Stan died. My brother-in-law and a group of singers paid tribute to him last night at a bar in New Brunswick, Canada. I'd forgotten some of the beautiful songs he wrote which my brother-in-law sang beautifully. RIP Stan Rogers.

I remember this was used in a documentary about the Franklin expedition, later shown on BBC2 in the Wide World series (1989). Evocatively used, but didn't mention Stan Rogers' name

I make fun of Canada a lot, but you did give us Stan Rogers which automatically gives you bonus points. My apologies for calling you all a bunch of Maple-chugging moose jockeys.

G'Day from Australia. I am in awe. This is a fabulous song so brilliantly performed. I am going to encourage people to get the book based on this song. Both are top quality pieces of art. Thank you.

🤯🤯🤯 Wow I listened to the metal version first

Such a terrible shame that he died in a plane crash

Just one time, I would take the Northwest passage.