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