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