Scenes From An Italian Restaurant Chords by Billy Joel
- Key: C
- BPM: 102
- Capo: no capo
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SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT ACORDES
[Intro] F G Gm7 C Bb F C7 F ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [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 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Solo] Fmaj7 F Bb Eb Ab Abmaj7 Eb Abmaj7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Dsus4 D Dsus4 D ■ ■ ■ ■ [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 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ D D7 D D7 G7 G F E7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ D7 G F E7 D G F C ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] D G F C D ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 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 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [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 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Solo] D G C G F7 E7 Am D ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ G F C D ■ ■ ■ ■ 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 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Solo] C D F D C Am F Bb ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Break] F C Bb F C Bb F C ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Gm7 C Gm7 C F ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [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 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ D Dm7 C F G F Dm7 F ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ C G Em G C C ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Outro]