SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT
Words & Music by Billy Joel
Album: The Stranger (1977)
INTRO: F Bb C Bb
F Bb
A bottle of white, a bottle of red
C Bb F
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
C C/Bb Am
Get a table near the street
Am/Bb C
In our old familiar place
Bb C Bb
You and I, face to face, um umm
F Bb
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
C Bb F
It all depends on your appetite
G G/A G/B C
I'll meet you anytime you want
C/D C/E F Bb
In our Italian Restaurant
SAX SOLO: C F Bb C F Bb
Eb G# Eb G# D
G
Things are okay with me these days
G
Got a good job, got a good office
C Am7
Got a new wife, got a new life
D D D
And the family's fine
G
Oh, we lost touch long ago
G
You lost weight I did not know
C Am7 D
You could ever look so nice after so much time
Eb Bb F
Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green
Eb Bb F
Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans
Eb Bb F
Woah you drop a dime in the box play the song about New Orleans
Eb Bb
Cold beer, hot lights
C D G
My sweet romantic teenage nights
RAGTIME BIT: G C Am D
G C Am D
PIANO SOLO: G G
G G/F G/E D
G G/F G/E D
G G/F G/E D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
G G/F G/E D
Oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
G
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
D D C
And the king and the queen of the prom
G G/B C
Riding around with the car top down and the radio on
G D D C
Nobody looked any finer
G C
Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
G F E
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
Am Am/B C D G
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive
G/F G/E D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
G G/F G/E D
Oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
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G D D C
Brenda and Eddy were still going steady in the summer of seventy five
G G/B C
When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July
G D D C
Everyone said they were crazy
G C
Brenda you know that you're much too lazy
G F E
Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life
Am Am/B C D G
Oh, but there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye
G/F G/E D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
C
Well, they got an apartment with deep pile carpet
D G
And a couple of paintings from Sears
C
A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
D G
They had saved for a couple of years
C
They started to fight when the money got tight
D Em Am
And they just didn't count on the tears, woh oh, woh oh...yeah rock n roll
SAX SOLO: G D
G G/B C
G D D C
G C
G F E
Am Am/B C D
G G/F G/E D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
C
Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style
D G
But it's always the same in the end
C
They got a divorce as a matter of course
D G
And they parted the closest of friends
C
Then the king and the queen went back to the green
D Em Am D
But you can never go back there again, oh oh, oh oh
G D D C
Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of seventy five
G G/B
From the high to the low to the end of the show
C
For the rest of their lives
G D D C
They couldn't go back to the greasers
G C
The best they could do was pick up their pieces
G F E
We always knew they would both find a way to get by
Am Am/B C D
That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
Am Am/B C D
Can't tell you more cause I told you already
Am Am/B C D G
And here we are waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye
G/F G/E D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
G G/F G/E D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
G G/F G/E D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
RUN DOWN: (NOTES) F E D C B A
C Bb A G F E
F Bb C Bb F
Yeah yeah yeah
C C/Bb Am Am/Bb C Bb C Bb
F Bb
A bottle of red, oooh a bottle of white
C Bb F
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
G G/A G/B C
I'll meet you anytime you want
C/D C/E F Bb
In our Italian Restaurant
SAX OUTRO: C F Bb C F Bb
Dm Em F G C
Notes:
? Run Down: There are no chords to fit over this part, the whole band plays the run down:
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