Rufus Wainwright – The Art Teacher (Ukulele)

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tabbed by Rollo, [email protected] 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            Gb
I was just a girl then; 

B                  A Abm Gb
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                    Gb
He asked us what our favorite work of art was,

      B                       A Abm Gb
But never could I tell him it was-- him.

      B
Oh, I wish I could tell him --

                         Gb
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 

                   Gb
He told me he liked Turner

 B                  A Abm Gb
Never have I turned since then

    B                      Gb
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      Bm/F# Bm/E Bm/D Bm/Db Bm Gb*
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.

             Gb
I was just a girl then;

 B                 A Abm Gb
Never have I loved since then.

    B                  Gb
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.