Scenes From An Italian Restaurant chords by Billy Joel (Official Version)
Intro 1
F
Gm7
C7
Bb/F
F
C7
Verse 1
F
Gm/F
A bottle of white, a bottle of red
C/F
Bb/F
F
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
C
Bbsus2
F/A
We'll get a table near the street
Bbsus2
C
In our old familiar place
Gm
C
Gm
Bb/C
C
You and I, face to face
Verse 2
F
Gm/F
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
C/F
Bb/F
F
It all depends upon your appetite
G7
C
I'll meet you any time you want
F
Gm/F
In our Italian Res- taurant
Solo 1
Cmaj7
Fmaj7
Bbmaj7
Cmaj7
Fmaj7
Bbmaj7
Ebmaj7
Abmaj7
Ebmaj7
Abmaj7
C/D
D
Verse 3
G
D/G
Things are okay with me these days
Dm
G7
Got a good job, got a good office
C
Fmaj7
Got a new wife, got a new life
Am
Dsus4
D
And the family's fine
G
D/G
We lost touch long ago
Dm
G7
You lost weight I did not know
C
Fmaj7
You could ever look so nice after
Am
Dsus4
D
So much time
Bridge 1
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
Bb
F
play the song about New Orleans
Eb
Bb
Cold beer, hot lights
C
D
My sweet romantic teenage
Interlude 1
G
D/G
Dm
G7
(nights)
C
Fmaj7
Am
D7
G
D/G
Dm
G7
C
Fmaj7
Am
D7
D7
Solo 2
G
G
G
F
C/E
D
G
F
C/E
D
G
F
C/E
D
G
F
C/E
D
Verse 4
G
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadys
D
And the king and the queen of the prom
G
G/B
Riding around with the car top down
C
and the radio on
G
D
Nobody looked any finer
G
C
Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
G
F
We never knew we could want more than that
E7
out of life
Am
G/B
Surely Brenda and Eddie
C
D
G
Would always know how to survive
F
C/E
D
G
F
C/E
D
Verse 5
G
Brenda and Eddie were still going steady
D
in the summer of '75
G
When they decided
G/B
C
the marriage would 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
And Eddie could never afford
E7
to live that kind of life
Am
G/B
But there we were wavin'
C
D
G
F
C/E
D
Brenda and Eddie goodbye
Bridge 2
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
G
They had saved for a couple of years
C
They started to fight
when the money got tight
D
Em
And they just didn't count on the tears
A
C/D
Solo 3
G
D
G
G/B
C
G
D
G
C
G
F
E7
Am
G/B
C
D
G
F
C/E
D
Bridge 3
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
But you can never go back there again
A
C/D
Verse 6
G
Brenda and Eddie had had it already
D
by the summer of '75
G
From the high to the low
G/B
to the end of the show
C
For the rest of their lives
G
D
They couldn't go back to the greasers
G
The best they could do
C
was pick up the pieces
G
F
We always knew they would both
E7
find a way to get by
Am
G/B
C
D
That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
Am
G/B
C
D
Can't tell you more than I told you already
Am
G/B
And here we are wavin'
C
D
G
F
C/E
D
Brenda And Eddie goodbye
G
F
C/E
D
G
F
C/E
D
F
C7
Interlude 2
F
Bb/F
C/F
Bb/F
F
C
Bbsus2
F/A
Bbsus2
C
Gm
C
Gm
Bb/C
C
Verse 7
F
Gm/F
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
C/F
Whatever kind of mood
Bb/F
F
you're in tonight
G7
C
I'll meet you any time you want
F
Gm/F
In our Italian Res- taurant
Outro 1
Cmaj7
Fmaj7
Bbmaj7
Cmaj7
Fmaj7
Bbmaj7
Dm
C7/E
F
G
Csus4
C
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant
Billy Joel
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