Art Teacher


RUFUS WAINWRIGHT - "The Art Teacher" tabbed by Rollo, rollosb@hotmail.com This song is a wonderful and blissful touch to a magnificent album from an artist that's undoubtedly one of the most creative, sincere and well-sounding artists since God-knows-when. Do it justice! Ebm Bb There I was in uniform E Eb7sus4 Eb7 Looking at the art---- teacher. B F# I was just a girl then; B A Abm F# Never have I loved since then. Ebm Bb He was not that much older than I was E Eb7sus4 Eb7 He had taken our class to the Metropolitan Museum B F# He asked us what our favorite work of art was, B A Abm F# But never could I tell him it was-- him. B Oh, I wish I could tell him -- F# Oh, I wish I could have told him. Ebm Bb I looked at the Reubens and Rembrandts E Eb7sus4 Eb7 B I liked the John Singer Sergeants F# He told me he liked Turner B A Abm F# Never have I turned since then B F# No, never have I turned to any other man. [French horn solo, following verse structure] Ebm Abm7 All this having been said, Bb7 B Bb A Abm I married an executive company head. B Ab B Bm/E Bm/D Bm/C# Bm F#* All this having been done, a Tur---ner------------ I- own one. Ebm Bb E Here I am in this uniform, this pantsuit sort of thing, Eb7sus4 Eb7 B Thinking of the art--- teacher. F# I was just a girl then; B A Abm F# Never have I loved since then. B F# No, never have I loved any other man. [ends on a high Gb chord] * This is actually played as a D-Db-Bb-Gb sequence occurring two times fast, one time slow.