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Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

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Billy Joel

Version
studio
published by
rafah
Tone
A-
A+
Slide
A -> La
Video
Chords
	 
[Intro]
F Gm7/F C Bb F C Bb/F F C F
[Verse]
F Gm7/F
A bottle of white a bottle of red
C/F Bb/F F
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
C Bb F/A
We'll get a table near the street
Bb C
In our old familiar place
Gm7 C Gm7 C Bb/C
You and I--fa-a-ace to face hmmm
F Gm7/F
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
C/F Bb/F F
It all depends on your aaaa ppe tite
G7 F/A G/B C
I'll meet you any time you want
Bb/D C/E
In our Italian Restaurant
F Gm7/F
[Saxophone]
[Instrumental]
Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7

Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bb(add9)

Ebmaj7 Abmaj7 Ebmaj7 Abmaj7

Am7/D D Am7/D D

[Verse]
G D/G
Things are okay with me these days
G7 G9
Got a good job, got a good office
C F
Got a new wife, got a new life
Dsus4 G/D D
And the family's fine
G D/G
We lost touch long ago
G7
You lost weight
G9
I did not know
C F
You could ever look so good after
Dsus4 G/D D
So much ti-i-i-me.
[Verse]
Eb Bb
You remember those days hanging out
F
At the village green
Eb Bb
Engineer boots, leather jackets
F
And tight blue jeans
Eb
Drop a dime in the box play the
Bb F
Song about New Orleans
Eb Bb
Cold beer, hot lights
C Gm7/C
My sweet romantic teenage nights
[Solo]
G Gmaj7 G7 C F Am7 D

G Gmaj7 G7 C F Am7 D

[Piano]
[Instrumental]
G Bass

G F C/E D

G F C/E D

G F C/E D

G F C/E D

[Bridge]
G F C/E D
Oooh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
G F C/E D
Oooh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
[Verse]
G
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
D D C
And the king and the queen of the prom
G G/B C F C F 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 E7
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
Am7 G/B C Am7/D G
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive.
[Bridge]
F C/E D G
Oooh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
F C/E D
Oooh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
[Verse]
G D D C
Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75
G G/B C F C F 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 you're much too lazy
G F E7
Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life."
G/B C /D GA Am7/D G
But there we were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye.
F C/E D
Oooh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
[Verse]
F/C
They got an apartment with deep pile carpet
D G C G
And a couple of paintings from Sears
F/C
A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
D G C G
They had saved for a couple of years
F/C
They started to fight when the money got tight
D Em
And they just didn't count on the tears.
A7 Am7/D
Whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh yaaa rock n’roll
[Saxophone]
[Instrumental]
G D D C

G G/B C F C F C

G D D C

G C

G F E7

Am7 G/B C Am7/D

[Bridge]
G F C/E D
Oh oh oh
[Verse]
F/C
They lived for a while in a very nice style
D C G
But it's always the same in the end
F/C
They got a divorce as a matter of course
D C G
And they parted the closest of freh- ends
F/C
Then the king and the queen went back to the green
D Em7
But you can never go back there again.
A7 Am7/D
Oh oh oh ohhhhh oh oh oh ohhhhhh
[Verse]
G
Brenda and Eddie had had it already
D D C
By the summer of '75
G
From the high to the low
G/B
To the end of the show
C F C F 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 the pieces
G F E7
We always knew they would both find a way to get by ooooh
Am7 G/B C D
That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
Am7 G/B C D
Can't tell you more than I told you already
Am7 G/B C Am7/D
And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie good
[Interlude]
G F C/E D
Bye. Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh
G F C/E D
oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh
G F C/E D
oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh
[Instrumental]
F E D C B A

C Bb A G F E

F Gm7/F C/F Bb/F F

C Bb F/A

F/A Bb

C Gm7 C Gm7

Gm7/C C7

[Verse]
F Gm7/F
A bottle of red, ooooo and bottle of white
C/F Bb/F F
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
G7 F/A G/B C
I'll meet you any ti-i-ime you want
Bb/D C/E
In our Italian Restaurant
F Gm7/F
[Saxophone]
[Instrumental]
Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7

Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7

Dm7 C/E F Dm7/G

F/C C