Scenes from an Italian Restaurant Chords by Billy Joel

[Start]

[Intro]
F Bb C F
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[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
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[Solo]
Bb Ebmaj7 Abmaj7 Ebmaj7 Eb Abmaj7 Dsus4
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[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
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D D7 G G7 F Em7 D G
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[Inst]
F Em7 D G F C
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Dsus4 G F C
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[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
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[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
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[Solo]
C G C G F E7
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G G7 C D
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[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
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[Solo]
D7 C7 F Bb C Bb F C
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[Break]
F Bb C Gm7 C F
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[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
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[Solo]
C F G F C
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[Outro]