Scenes From An Italian Restaurant chords by Billy Joel

SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT

Words & Music by Billy Joel

Album: The Stranger (1977)

INTRO: F Bb C Bb


F         Bb
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 G# Eb G# D

G
Things are okay with me these days
G
Got a good job, got a good office
C        Am7
Got a new wife, got a new life
    D       D D
And the family's fine
  G
Oh, we lost touch long ago
G
You lost weight I did not know
C       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


      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  D
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
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:
  E-----------------|
   B----------------|
  G-----------------|
  D-320-------------|
  A----320-310------|
  E-----------310---|