# #SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT # #Words & Music by Billy Joel # #Album: The Stranger (1977) # 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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