Ten Tiny Fingers - The Proclaimers

Ten tiny fingers, ten tiny toes

I thought I knew about love

But I didn’t know

No no, I didn’t know

My newborn daughter

Lay in my arms

And I was a fool for all her charms

But no no no, I didn’t know

I was a patsy, I was a dupe

I couldn’t think

My brains had turned to soup

I couldn’t speak, but my heart

Began to whoop

It’s the age-old story

Ten tiny fingers, ten tiny toes

Let you know that, you don’t know

No no, you don’t know

Now I’ve been a father

For twenty one years

And any time I thought

I could hold love

It disappeared, it disappeared

And while I’m thinking

How far I’ve come

I find I’m back where I started

Oh no, I didn’t know

Ten tiny fingers, ten tiny toes

Your daddy’s ears and your mummy’s nose

That’s as far as my knowledge goes

What I see before me are

Ten tiny fingers, ten tiny toes

Let you know that you don’t know

No no, you don’t know