Scenes from an Italian Restaurant Chords by Billy Joel
- Key: C
- BPM: 98
- Capo: no capo
DOWNBEAT
GUITAR
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GUITAR -
UKULELE
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PIANO
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MANDOLIN
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BANJO
SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT CHORDS
[Start] [Intro] F Gm7 C7 Bb F ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] Gm7 A bottle of white a bottle of red C7 Bb F ■ Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead C F Bb C We'll get a table near the street in our old familiar place Gm7 Bb F You and I face to face mhm Bb A bottle of red a bottle of white F It all depends upon your appetite G7 G C ■ I'll meet you any time you want Dm7 C In our Italian restaurant F Bb C Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 Bb C ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Solo] F Bbmaj7 Eb Ebmaj7 Abmaj7 Eb ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Abmaj7 Dsus4 D7 ■ ■ ■ [Verse] G D Things are okay with me these days G7 D C I got a good job I got a good office F Am I got a new wife got a new life and the family is fine D G D ■ Oh we lost touch long ago G7 D C You lost weight I did not know C You could ever look so nice after so much time D Eb 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 Eb Oh you'd drop a dime in the box play a song about New Orleans ■ Bb C D7 Cold beer hot lights my sweet romantic teenage nights G Ooh ooh G Yeah yeah ooh [Solo] G7 G C F Am D7 G G7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Inst] G C F Am D G F Em ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ D G F Em7 D7 G F ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] Em D7 G F Em Ohoh ohoh ■ oh oh oh oh C D7 G Ohoh ohoh oh oh oh oh G Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies D D7 And the king and the queen at the prom G G7 C Riding around with the car top down and the radio on G D G C Nobody looked any finer or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner G F E E7 We never knew we could want more than that out of life ■ Am C G Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive F Em Em7 D G F Ohoh ohoh oh oh oh oh E7 Em7 D7 G Ohoh ■ ohoh oh oh oh oh D Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of 'seventyfive G G7 C When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July G D Everyone said they were crazy G C Brenda you know that you're much too lazy G F E And Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life Am C G Oh but there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye F Em D Ohoh ohoh oh oh [Chorus] C Well they got an apartment with deep pile carpets D G And a couple of paintings from Sears C A big waterbed that they bought with the bread D G They had saved for a couple of years C But they started to fight when the money got tight D Em A7 G And they just didn't count on the tears oh oh D D7 Yeah and rock and roll [Solo] G D G C G D G C ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ G F E E7 Am G ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ F Em D Ohoh ohoh oh oh oh oh C Well they lived for a while in a very nice style [Chorus] D G But it's always the same in the end C7 They got a divorce as a matter of course C G And they parted the closest of friends C Then the king and the queen went back to the green D Em A7 Dsus4 But you can never go back there again no oh [Verse] D G D ■ Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of 'seventyfive G From the high to the low to the end of the show C For the rest of their lives G D7 They couldn't go back to the greasers G C The best they could do was pick up their pieces G F E But we always knew they would both find a way to get by [Chorus] Am Oh and that's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie Am Can't tell you more 'cause I told you already G And here we are waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye F Em Ohoh ohoh oh oh oh oh Em7 G F Em Em7 Ohoh ■ ohoh oh oh oh oh G F E7 Ohoh ohoh oh oh oh oh [Solo] D F Csus4 C Bb F C Bb ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Break] F Bb C Bb ■ ■ ■ ■ [Chorus] C F Gm7 C A bottle of red ooh a bottle of white ■ Bb F G7 Whatever kind of mood you're ■ in tonight ■ G C I'll meet you anytime you want Dm7 C F In our Italian restaurant [Solo] Bb Cmaj7 F Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bb ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Outro] Bbmaj7 Bb Dm7 C F C ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [End]
