Billy Joel – Scenes From An Italian Restaurant (Guitar)

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[Intro] F Gm C Bb F C7
F                  Gm
A bottle of white, a bottle of red

C                     Bb        F
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead

C           C/Bb     Am
Get a table near the street

             Am/Bb  C
In our old familiar place

           Bb      C     Bb
You and I, face to face, um umm

F                Bb
A bottle of red, a bottle of white

C                      Bb  F
It all depends on your appetite

G             G/A     G/B C
I'll meet you anytime you want

        C/D C/E  F       Bb
In our Italian Restaurant
[Sax Solo] C F Bb C F Bb Eb Ab Eb Ab D
G                    D
Things are okay with me these days

G
Got a good job, got a good office

C               F
Got a new wife, got a new life

        Am7            D
And the family's fine

    G             D
Oh, we lost touch long ago

G
You lost weight I did not know

C              F                  Am7          D
You could ever look so nice after so much time

         Eb                        Bb                 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
Woah you drop a dime in the box play the song about New Orleans

Eb         Bb
Cold beer, hot lights

C          D              G
My sweet romantic teenage nights
[Ragtime Bit] G C Am D G C Am D [Piano Solo] G G G G/F G/E D G G/F G/E D
G  G/F    G/E    D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh

G      G/F    G/E    D
Oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh

G
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies

        D                             D C
And the king and the queen of the prom

G                      G/B                  C
Riding around with the car top down and the radio on

G                 D    D C
Nobody looked any finer

       G                    C
Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner

G                      F                          E
We never knew we could want more than that out of life

       Am         Am/B        C           D         G
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive

   G/F    G/E    D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh

G      G/F    G/E    D
Oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh

G                                              D                      D C
Brenda and Eddy were still going steady in the summer of seventy five

G                     G/B                      C
When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July

G                       D     D C
Everyone said they were crazy

G                           C
Brenda you know that you're much too lazy

G                   F                         E
Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life

        Am            Am/B   C          D         G
Oh, but there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye

   G/F    G/E    D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh

           F
Well, they got an apartment with deep pile carpet

      D                        G
And a couple of paintings from Sears

  F
A big waterbed that they bought with the bread

         D                     G
They had saved for a couple of years

     F
They started to fight when the money got tight

         D                        Em         A7      D7               G
And they just didn't count on the tears, woh oh, woh oh...yeah rock n roll
[Sax Solo] G D G G/B C G D D C G C G F E Am Am/B C D
G  G/F    G/E    D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh

           F
Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style

         D                         G
But it's always the same in the end

     F
They got a divorce as a matter of course

         D                            G
And they parted the closest of friends

         F
Then the king and the queen went back to the green

            D                    Em       A7     D
But you can never go back there again, oh oh, oh oh

G                                          D                     D C
Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of seventy five

         G                      G/B
From the high to the low to the end of the show

        C
For the rest of their lives

     G                       D       D C
They couldn't go back to the greasers

    G                           C
The best they could do was pick up their pieces

G                         F                      E
We always knew they would both find a way to get by

Am           Am/B        C          D
That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie

Am             Am/B         C          D
Can't tell you more cause I told you already

    Am          Am/B   C          D         G
And here we are waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye

   G/F    G/E    D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh

G  G/F    G/E    D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh

G  G/F    G/E    D
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
[Run Down] (NOTES) F E D C B A C Bb A G F E
F  Bb        C   Bb F
   Yeah yeah yeah
C C/Bb Am Am/Bb C Bb C Bb
F                Bb
A bottle of red, oooh a bottle of white

C                            Bb   F
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight

G             G/A     G/B C
I'll meet you anytime you want

        C/D C/E  F       Bb
In our Italian Restaurant
[Sax Outro] C F Bb C F Bb Dm Em F G C
Notes:
Run Down: There are no chords to fit over this part, the whole band plays the run down:
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    B|-----------------|
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    D|-320-------------|
    A|----320-310------|
    E|-----------310---|