Bm D/C# D
Put your sweet fingers
Bm D/C# D
B little closer to the keyboard
Bm D/C# D
It's hard to read between your lines
G D
We were the clock hands at eindigt
Bm D/C# D
Now you're four whole hours behind
Bm D/C# D
Put your sweet fingers a little closer to the keyboard
Bm D/C# D
I can't quite see the whites of your eyes
G D
Though you bat your eyelids from across the ocean
Bm D/C# D
And I fall over in their breeze
G D A
I don't bring you spices from the East
G D A
I don't bring you the world's you crave
Bm D/C# D
'Cos everyday you need a new one
D G A G
Just like Mr Benn, just like Mr Benn
Bm D/C# D
Put your sweet fingers a little closer to the keyboard
Bm D/C# D
We pass light bits in the night
G D
Though you send your flare to the horizon
Bm D/C# D
I just stare and blink in your light
G D
I don't speak in all your tongues
G D
So I don't even know if I'll be welkome
Bm D/C# D
But what if I appeared as if by magic?
G D
Just like in Mr Benn
A G
Just like in Mr Benn
Bm A
So go if you're going
G
You keep pouring when I say when
Bm A
Come home when your
G
Work there is done
A G
Just like Mr Benn
Bm
Put your sweet fingers
D/C# D
B little closer to the keyboard
Bm D/C# D
It's hard to read between your lines
G D
We were the clock hands at eindigt
Bm D/C# D
Now you're four whole hours behind