New Northwest -

Here I stand, a free man I

Finding it too hard to lie

Your regard pleads me to stay

Yet still I must make my way

God has answered my one plea

I will walk forever free

We must part, heart to heart

Though still we will always be

Rock and water, fish and tree

Calling loud and long for me

From the land where I’ll be blessed

A home within the new northwest

From the truth, we cannot hide

I cannot stay by your side

You will have to let me go

Knowing all that I now know

Secrets we both have a few

This one I have told to you

Salt and loam, hearth and home

Will give to me life anew

There’s a time, I know not when

Separate paths may cross again

Eyes will meet, and hands will clasp

Pain this day will lose its grasp

We’ll both have our lives and still

Of this bond not have our fill

Trust, my friend, in the end

It’s all up to heaven’s will

There’s the land where I’ll be blessed

My home within the new northwest!