The art teacher

There I was in uniform
Looking at the art teacher
I was just a girl then;
Never have I loved since then

He was not that much older than I was
He had taken our class
to the Metropolitan Museum
He asked us what our
favorite work of art was,
But never could I tell it was him
Oh, I wish I could tell him
Oh, I wish I could have told him


I looked at the Rubens and Rembrandts
I liked the John Singer Sargents
He told me he liked Turner
Never have I turned since then
No, never have I turned to any other man

All this having been said,
I married an executive company head
All this having been done,
a Turner - I own one
Here I am in this uniformish,
pant-suit sort of thing,
Thinking of the art teacher
I was just a girl then;
Never have I loved since then
No, never have I loved any other man