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Billy Joel - Scenes From an Italian Restaurant

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F Gm C C11 Bb/F F C7
F Gm/C C7/F Bb F
A bottle of white, a bottle of red perhaps a bottle of rose instead
C Bb F/A Bb C
Get a table near the street in our old familiar place
C11 C C11 Csus4 C
You and I, face to face, mm mm
F Gm/F C/F Bb/F F
A bottle of red, a bottle of white it all depends on your appetite
G G/A G/B C C/D C/E F Bb
I'll meet you anytime you want in our Italian Restaurant
Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7
Ebmaj7 Abmaj7 Ebmaj7 Abmaj7 D
G D/G Dm/G Cadd2/G
Things are okay with me these days got a good job, got a good office
C Fmaj7 Am Dsus4 D
Got a new wife, got a new life and the family's fine
G D/G Dm/G Cadd2/G
Oh, we lost touch long ago you lost weight I did not know
C Fmaj7 Am Dsus4 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 C D G
Cold beer, hot lights my sweet romantic teenage nights
G Gmaj7 G7 G C F Am D
G Gmaj7 G7 G G/B C F Am D
Piano solo
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 G7/B C Csus4 C Csus4 C
Riding around with the car top down and the radio on
G D D C G Csus4 C Csus4 C
Nobody looked any finer or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
G F E E/F# E/G# E
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
Am G/B C D G
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive
G/F G/E G/D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
G G/F G/E G/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 G7/B C Csus4 C Csus4 C
When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July
G D D C
Everyone said they were crazy
G Csus4 C Csus4 C
Brenda you know that you're much too lazy
G F E E/F# E/G# E
Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life
Am G/B C D G
Oh, but there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye
G/F G/E G/D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
Csus4 C Csus4 C
Well, they got an apartment with deep pile carpet
Dsus4 G
And a couple of paintings from Sears
Csus4 C Csus4 C
A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
D Gsus4 G Gsus4 G
They had saved for a couple of years
Csus4 C Csus4 C
They started to fight when the money got tight
D Em A7 D11
And they just didn't count on the tears, woh oh, woh oh...yeah rock n roll
Solo
G D G G7/B C G D G C
G F E E/F# E/G# E Am G/B C D
G G/F G/E D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
Csus4 C
Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style
Dsus4 D C G
But it's always the same in the end
Csus4 C
They got a divorce as a matter of course
Dsus4 C G
And they parted the closest of friends
Csus4 C
Then the king and the queen went back to the green
Dsus4 D Em A7 D11
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 G7/B
From the high to the low to the end of the show
C Csus4 C Csus4 C
For the rest of their lives
G D D C
They couldn't go back to the greasers
G Csus4 C C Csus4
The best they could do was pickup their pieces
G F E E/F# E/G# E
We always knew they would both find a way to get by
Am G/B C D
That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
Am G/B C D
Can't tell you more cause I told you already
Am G/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
NOTES: F E D C B A C Bb A G F E
F GM/F C/F Bb/F F
Yeah yeah yeah
Piano
C Bb F/A Bb C Gm7 C Gm7 F/C C
F Gm/F C/F Bb/F F
A bottle of reds, oooh a bottle of whites Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
G G/A G/B C C/D C/E F Gm/F
I'll meet you anytime you want In our Italian Restaurant
Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7
Dm9 C/E F G11 F/C C

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