Chord Scenes From An Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel

intro : F A# C A# F gmin7 a bottle of white , a bottle of red C A#/F F perhaps a bottle of rose instead C C/A# F get a table near the street Gm/F C in our old familiar place A# C A# C you and i , face to face , um umm F gmin7 a bottle of red , a bottle of white C A#/F 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 A# in our italian restaurant sax solo : C F A# C F A# D# G# D# G# D G Dm/G things are okay with me these days F/G C/G got a good job , got a good office C Am7 got a new wife , got a new life D D D7 and the family’s fine G Dm/G oh , we lost touch long ago F/G C/G you lost weight i did not know C Am7 D7 you could ever look so nice after so much time D# A# F do you remember those days hanging out at the village green D# A# F engineer boots , leather jackets and tight blue jeans D# A# F woah you drop a dime in the box play the song about new orleans D# A# 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 Dsus4 Dsus2 oh oh , oh oh , oh oh oh oh oh G G/F G/E Dsus4 Dsus2 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 bass : E F# G# 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 Dsus4 Dsus2 oh oh , oh oh , oh oh oh oh oh G G/F G/E Dsus4 Dsus2 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 bass : E F# G# 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 Dsus4 Dsus2 oh oh , oh oh , oh oh C well , 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 Am 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 Dsus4 Dsus2 oh oh , oh oh , oh oh C well , 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 Am 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 bass : E F# G# 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 Dsus4 Dsus2 oh oh , oh oh , oh oh oh oh oh G G/F G/E Dsus4 Dsus2 oh oh , oh oh , oh oh oh oh oh G G/F G/E Dsus4 Dsus2 oh oh , oh oh , oh oh oh oh oh run down : notes F E D C B A C A# A G F E F A# C A# F yeah yeah yeah C C/A# F Gm/F C A# C A# F gmin7 a bottle of red , oooh a bottle of white C A# 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 A# in our italian restaurant sax outro : C F A# C F A# Dm Em F G C