Scenes From An Italian Restaurant Chords by Billy Joel

[Intro]
F G Gm7 C Bb F C7 F
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[Verse]
                                  C
A bottle of white a bottle of red ■
                         Bb F      
Perhaps a bottle of rose ■  instead
C                            F     
■ We'll get a table near the street
   Am7 Am  Bb       C    
In our old familiar place
Gm7 C     Gm7  Csus4   C C7
You and I face to face ■ ■ 


[Chorus]
F                 Bb                  
■ A bottle of red ■  a bottle of white
Fsus4                    Bb F        G
It all depends upon your ■  appetite ■
              Am  G            
I'll meet you any time you want
C      Dm7     C         
In our Italian Restaurant
F Bb F C Fmaj7 Bb F C
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[Solo]
Fmaj7 F Bb Eb Ab Abmaj7 Eb Abmaj7
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Dsus4 D Dsus4 D
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[Verse]
G                    D            
Things are okay with me these days
Gsus4              G7           
Got a good job got a good office
Cmaj7          F             
Got a new wife got a new life
    Am7          D   
And the family's fine
   G          D       
We lost touch long ago
    Gsus4         G7          
You lost weight I did not know
C              F            G    
You could ever look so nice after
        D   
So much time


[Chorus]
       Eb                  Bb         
Do 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                         G     
My sweet romantic teenage nights


[Solo]
G7 Gsus4 C F C G C F
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D D7 D D7 G7 G F E7
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D7 G F E7 D G F C
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[Verse]
D G F C D
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G                        
Brenda and Eddie were the
G              
Popular steadys
        D                 
And the king and the queen
D          
Of the prom


[Chorus]
G                             
Riding around with the car top
             C       
Down and the radio on
G                 D    
Nobody looked any finer
       G                   
Or was more of a hit at the
C            
Parkway Diner
G                      F        
We never knew we could want more
                 F   
Than that out of life
       F                     
Surely Brenda and Eddie would
C                  G      
Always know how to survive
F C Dsus4 G F C D
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[Verse]
G                                
Brenda and Eddie were still going
              D                     
Steady in the summer of 'seventyfive
G                                   
When they decided the marriage would
          C          
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
        F   
Kind of life
    Am            G      C         
But there we were wavin' Brenda and
G F C D
■ ■ ■ ■
D            
Eddie goodbye


[Chorus]
     C                         
They got an apartment with deep
C          
Pile carpet
      D                        G    
And a couple of paintings from Sears
F     C                        
A big waterbed that they bought
C             
With the bread
         D                 
They had saved for a couple
        
Of years
G    C                        
They started to fight when the
C              
Money got tight
    D                        
And they just didn't count on
    Em   
The tears
A7 D7 G D G Bm C G
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[Solo]
D G C G F7 E7 Am D
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G F C D
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C                          
They lived for a while in a


[Chorus]
C              
Very nice style
D                           G      
But it's always the same in the end
C                             
They got a divorce as a matter
   C     
Of course
         D                 
And they parted the closest
   G      
Of friends
C                               
Then the king and the queen went
C                
Back to the green
    D                    
But you can never go back
Em          A7 Dsus4
There again ■  ■    


[Verse]
G                          
Brenda and Eddie had had it
               D                     
Already by the summer of 'seventyfive
         G                 
From the high to the low to
    G              
The end of the show
        C                  
For the rest of their lives
G                       
They couldn't go back to
    D       
The greasers
    G                     
The best they could do was
C                 
Pick up the pieces
G                         F   
We always knew they would both
                  E7
Find a way to get by


[Chorus]
Am           G          
That's all I heard about
C               
Brenda and Eddie
Am7                       
Can't tell you more than I
C               
Told you already
    D7                 G     
And here we are wavin' Brenda
C         G      
And Eddie goodbye
F C Dsus4 G F C G F
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[Solo]
C D F D C Am F Bb
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[Break]
F C Bb F C Bb F C
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Gm7 C Gm7 C F
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[Chorus]
                Bb                C
A bottle of red a bottle of white ■
                             Bb F      
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
G Am7           G           C   
■ I'll meet you anytime you want
       Em7     F         
In our Italian Restaurant


[Solo]
Bb F C F Bb C F Bb
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D Dm7 C F G F Dm7 F
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C G Em G C C
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[Outro]