Art Teacher chords by Rufus Wainwright

The Art Teacher by Rufus Wainwright


There I was in uniform (B)
Looking at, the art - teacher (E7)
I was, just a girl then (G)
Never have I, loved, since then (G)

He was not that much older than I was (he had) (B)
Taken our class to the Metropolitan Museum (E7)
He asked us what our favorite work of art was (G)
And never could I tell him, it was him (G)
Oh I wish I could tell him . . . (C)
Oh I wish I could have told him (G) [hold 2-extra measures]

I looked at the Reubens and Rembrandts (B)
I liked the John Singer Sergeants (E7)
He told me he liked Turner (G)
Never have I, turned since then (G)
No never have I turned to any other man (G) [solo over verse]

Am7
All this having been said
Am
I married an executive company head
 G
All, this having been done, a Turner . . . I own one (walk bass from 9th fret on A
string after Cm)

Here I am in this uniformish pantsuit sort of thing (B)
Thinking of the art teacher (E7, hold 3 measures)
I was just a girl then (G)
Never have I, loved since then (G)
No never have I loved - any other man (