Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

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[Intro]
F Gm C Bb F C7
F Gm
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 Ab Eb Ab D
G D
Things are okay with me these days
G
Got a good job, got a good office
C F
Got a new wife, got a new life
Am7 D
And the family's fine
G D
Oh, we lost touch long ago
G
You lost weight I did not know
C F 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
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
F
Well, they got an apartment with deep pile carpet
D G
And a couple of paintings from Sears
F
A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
D G
They had saved for a couple of years
F
They started to fight when the money got tight
D Em A7 D7 G
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
F
Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style
D G
But it's always the same in the end
F
They got a divorce as a matter of course
D G
And they parted the closest of friends
F
Then the king and the queen went back to the green
D Em A7 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]
FEDCBA
(NOTES)
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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Scenes From An Italian Restaurant chords and lyrics

Free chords for Scenes From An Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel. Scroll the interactive sheet above or read the chord names inline below.

[Intro]
F  Gm  C  Bb  F  C7
[Sax Solo]
C  F  Bb  C  F  Bb
Eb  Ab  Eb  Ab  D
[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
[Sax Solo] 
G  D
G  G/B  C
G  D  D C
G  C
G  F  E
Am  Am/B  C  D
[Run Down] 
(NOTES)  F E D C B A
         C Bb A G F E
C C/Bb Am Am/Bb C  Bb C  Bb
[Sax Outro]
C  F  Bb  C  F  Bb
Dm  Em  F  G  C

Scenes From An Italian Restaurant Chords by Billy Joel

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