bash - BASH function with tmux send-keys

Question

I'm having problems putting "send-keys" into a bash function. Here's a minimal example:

function keys {
  tmux send-keys -t work:1 $*
}

tmux new-session -d -s work
keys "pwd" c-m "ls -latr" c-m
tmux attach-session -t work

The keys argument here is exactly what I'd type on the command-line as an argument to tmux send-keys. It almost works, but strips spaces, so I see ls-latr all as one word. But if I put quotes around the $* in the function, it just outputs the entire keys argument on one line (treating the c-m as literal characters). How could I make it execute the send-keys argument as if I'd typed it from command-line?

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