Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

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