Scenes from an Italian Restaurant Chords by Billy Joel
- Key: C
- BPM: 103
- Capo: no capo
DOWNBEAT
SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT CHORDS
[Start] [Intro] F Bb C F ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] Gm7 A bottle of white ■ a bottle of red C7 Bb F Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead C F ■ We'll get a table near the street C Bb In our old familiar place Gm7 Bb C You and I face to face ■ F Bb ■ A bottle of red ■ a bottle of white C Fsus4 Bb F It all depends on your appetite G C ■ I'll meet you any time you want F In our Italian restaurant [Chorus] Bb Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 C Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Solo] Bb Ebmaj7 Abmaj7 Ebmaj7 Eb Abmaj7 Dsus4 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] G D Things are okay with me these days F G7 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 We lost touch long ago F G You lost weight I did not know C F C You could ever look so good after so much time [Chorus] Eb F You remember those days hangin' out at the Village Green Eb Bb F Eb ■ Engineer boots leather jackets and tight blue jeans Bb F Drop a dime in the box play the song about New Orleans Eb Bb C ■ Cold beer hot lights D G G7 My sweet romantic teenage nights [Solo] C F Am7 G G7 C F C ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ D D7 G G7 F Em7 D G ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Inst] F Em7 D G F C ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Dsus4 G F C ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] G Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies D And the King and the Queen of the prom G C F Riding around with the car top down and the radio on G D 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 outta life Am G C G Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive [Chorus] F C G F C ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] G D Brenda and Eddie were still goin' steady in the Summer of 'seventyfive C G C When they decided the marriage'd be at the end of July G D Everyone said they were crazy G C Brenda you know you're much too lazy G F Eddie could never afford to live that kinda life Am7 C G F C D Oh but there we were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye ■ ■ ■ [Chorus] C 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 They had saved for a couple of years G C F They started to fight when the money got tight D Em And they just didn't count on the tears Am7 Dsus4 G D D7 G G7 G ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Solo] C G C G F E7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ G G7 C D ■ ■ ■ ■ [Chorus] C 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 A7 Dsus4 D But you can never go back there again ■ ■ ■ [Verse] G D7 Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the Summer of 'seventyfive C G From the high to the low to the end of the show C For the rest of their lives G D They couldn't go back to the Greasers G C The best they could do was pick up their pieces G F E7 Em E7 We always knew they would both find a way to get by ■ ■ [Chorus] Am7 C That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie Am7 G Can't tell you more than I told you already Am7 G F And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye C D G F C G F C ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Solo] D7 C7 F Bb C Bb F C ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Break] F Bb C Gm7 C F ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Chorus] Bb Csus4 C A bottle of red a bottle of white ■ Bb F G7 Whatever kinda mood you're in tonight ■ G C I'll meet you anytime you want D Dm7 C F In our Italian ■ ■ ■ restaurant Bb Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 Dm7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Solo] C F G F C ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Outro]