Scenes from an Italian Restaurant Chords by Billy Joel

[Intro]
F G Gm7 C C7 Bb F C7
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[Verse]
F                   Gm7          
A bottle of white a bottle of red
F                     Bb   F       C
■ Perhaps a bottle of rose instead ■
                           Am7   
We'll get a table near the street
F                   C    
In our old familiar place
Gm7            C       C7
You and I face to face ■ 
F                 Bb                  
■ A bottle of red ■  a bottle of white
C                   Bb            F
It all depends upon your appetite ■
G7 G             Am7 G        C   
■  I'll meet you any time you want
       F                 
In our Italian Restaurant
Bb C Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bb Bbmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7
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[Solo]
Bbmaj7 Eb Bb Ab Ebmaj7 Eb
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Ab Dsus4 D Dsus4
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[Verse]
G                    D        Gsus4
Things are okay with me these days 
           F              G     
Got a good job got a good office
C                        Am7 
Got a new wife got a new life
                      D
And the family's fine ■
G                    D  
■ We lost touch long ago
F                         C   
You lost weight I did not know
          F            Fmaj7     
You could ever look so nice after
   C         Dsus4
So much time ■    
       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             Dm7    
Song about New Orleans
Eb               C     
■  Cold beer hot lights
                  D7      G Gsus4 
My sweet romantic teenage ■ nights


[Chorus]
G C F C D G C F
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C D D7 G F E D7 G
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[Inst]
F E7 D7 G F C D G
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[Verse]
F      C D G                 
Brenda ■ ■ and Eddie were the
G              
Popular steadys
        D                 
And the king and the queen
       D   
Of the prom
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
                 E   
Than that out of life
Am7                          
Surely Brenda and Eddie would
C                  G      
Always know how to survive
F C Dsus4 G F C
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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
        E7  
Kind of life
    Am                   C         
But there we were wavin' Brenda and
G     F C D        
Eddie ■ ■ ■ goodbye


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


[Solo]
A7 D G D G C G D
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G C G F E C D G
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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
        C                
But you can never go back
Em    A7    D D7
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                      
That's all I heard about
C               
Brenda and Eddie
Am                        
Can't tell you more than I
C               
Told you already
    Am          G      C     
And here we are wavin' Brenda
          G      
And Eddie goodbye
F C Dsus4 G F C Dsus4 G
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[Solo]
F C Em7 D C F Bb F
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C Bb F C F C
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[Break]
Gm7 C Gm7
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[Chorus]
C7 F         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
               F         
In our Italian Restaurant


[Solo]
C Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 Bb Bbmaj7 C F Bb
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D Em C F G F Dm7 C
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G Em G C C
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[Outro]