Scenes From An Italian Restaurant chords by
Billy Joel

1977•Rock•910 views•

Key: F major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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Gm

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A bottle of white, a bottle of red

C

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Bb

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F

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Perhaps a bottle of rose instead

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We'll get a table near the street

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In our old familiar place

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C

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You and I, face to face

Verse 2

F

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Gm

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A bottle of red, a bottle of white

C

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Bb

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It all depends upon your appetite

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C

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I'll meet you any time you want

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Gm

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In our Italian Res- taurant

Solo 1

C

C

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Bb

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C

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Bb

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Eb

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Ab

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Eb

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Ab

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D

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Verse 3

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Things are okay with me these days

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Got a good job, got a good office

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Got a new wife, got a new life

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And the family's fine

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D

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We lost touch long ago

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G

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You lost weight I did not know

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You could ever look so nice after

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So much time

Bridge 1

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Do you remember those days hanging out

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At the village green

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Bb

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Engineer boots, leather jackets

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And tight blue jeans

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Drop a dime in the box

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play the song about New Orleans

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Bb

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Cold beer, hot lights

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My sweet romantic teenage

Interlude 1

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Dm

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(nights)

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Am

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D

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Dm

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C

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Am

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Solo 2

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C

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D

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G

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C

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C

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C

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Verse 4

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Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadys

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And the king and the queen of the prom

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Riding around with the car top down

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and the radio on

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D

D

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Nobody looked any finer

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G

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C

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Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner

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We never knew we could want more than that

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out of life

Am

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G

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Surely Brenda and Eddie

C

C

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D

D

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G

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Would always know how to survive

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C

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D

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C

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D

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Verse 5

G

G

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Brenda and Eddie were still going steady

D

D

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in the summer of '75

G

G

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When they decided

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G

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C

C

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the marriage would be at the end of July

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G

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D

D

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Everyone said they were crazy

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G

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C

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Brenda you know you're much too lazy

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G

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And Eddie could never afford

E

E

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to live that kind of life

Am

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G

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But there we were wavin'

C

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D

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F

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C

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D

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Brenda and Eddie goodbye

Bridge 2

C

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They got an apartment with deep pile carpet

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G

G

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And a couple of paintings from Sears

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C

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A big waterbed

that they bought with the bread

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They had saved for a couple of years

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They started to fight

when the money got tight

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Em

Em

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And they just didn't count on the tears

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A

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Solo 3

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C

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E

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Am

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Bridge 3

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They lived for a while in a very nice style

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But it's always the same in the end

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C

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They got a divorce as a matter of course

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And they parted the closest of friends

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Then the king and the queen

went back to the green

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Em

Em

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But you can never go back there again

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A

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Verse 6

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G

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Brenda and Eddie had had it already

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by the summer of '75

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G

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From the high to the low

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to the end of the show

C

C

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For the rest of their lives

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G

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D

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They couldn't go back to the greasers

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G

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The best they could do

C

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was pick up the pieces

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G

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We always knew they would both

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find a way to get by

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D

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That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie

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Can't tell you more than I told you already

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And here we are wavin'

C

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D

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Brenda And Eddie goodbye

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C

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Interlude 2

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Bb

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C

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Gm

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Gm

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Bb

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Verse 7

F

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Gm

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A bottle of red, a bottle of white

C

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Whatever kind of mood

Bb

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you're in tonight

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C

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I'll meet you any time you want

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F

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Gm

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In our Italian Res- taurant

Outro 1

C

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The original key of Scenes From An Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel is F major.

The primary chords used in Scenes From An Italian Restaurant are F, Gm, C, Bb, G, Eb.

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