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