Rufus Wainwright – The Art Teacher (Guitar)

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Tabbed by Rollo, [email protected] This song is a wonderful and blissful touch to a magnificent album from an artist who's undoubtedly one of the most creative, sincere and well-sounding artists since God-knows-when. Do it justice!

D#m            A#
There I was in uniform

E              D#7sus4 D#7
Looking at the art---- teacher.

B            F#
I was just a girl then;

B                  A G#m F#
Never have I loved since then.

D#m                  A#
He was not that much older than I was

       E                      D#7sus4        D#7
He had taken our class to the Metropolitan Museum

B                    F#
He asked us what our favorite work of art was,

      B                       A G#m 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.

D#m             A#
I looked at the Reubens and Rembrandts

E            D#7sus4      D#7     B
I liked the John Singer Sergeants

                   F#
He told me he liked Turner

 B                  A G#m F#
Never have I turned since then

    B                      F#
No, never have I turned to any other man.

[French horn solo, following verse structure]

D#m                  G#m7
All this having been said,

A#7           B        A#   A  G#m
I married an executive company head.

 B                   G#      Bm/F# Bm/E Bm/D Bm/C# Bm F#*
All this having been done, a Tur---ner------------ I- own one.

D#m               A#                                    E
Here I am in this uniform, this pantsuit sort of thing,

                D#7sus4 D#7     B
Thinking of the art--- teacher.

             F#
I was just a girl then;

 B                 A G#m F#
Never have I loved since then.

    B                  F#
No, never have I loved any other man.

(ends on a high F# chord) * This is actually played as a D-C#-A#-F# sequence occurring two times fast, one time slow.