Scenes from an Italian Restaurant Chords by Billy Joel

[Start]

[Intro]
F Gm7 C7 Bb 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                 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
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[Solo]
F Bbmaj7 Eb Ebmaj7 Abmaj7 Eb
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Abmaj7 Dsus4 D7
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[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
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[Inst]
G C F Am D G F Em
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D G F Em7 D7 G F
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[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
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G F E E7 Am G
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     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
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[Break]
F Bb C Bb
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[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
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[Outro]
Bbmaj7 Bb Dm7 C F C
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[End]