Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

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