Scenes From An Italian Restaurant chords by Billy Joel

Chords with lyrics

SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT

Words & Music by Billy Joel

Album: The Stranger (1977)

INTRO: FF Bb majorBb C majorC Bb majorBb


FF         Bb majorBb
A augmentedA bottle of white, a bottle of red
C majorC           Bb majorBb    FF
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
C majorC      C/Bb   A minorAm
Get a table near the street
       Am/Bb C majorC
In our old familiar place
      Bb majorBb   C majorC   Bb majorBb
You and I, face to face, um umm
FF        Bb majorBb
A augmentedA bottle of red, a bottle of white
C majorC           Bb majorBb FF
It all depends on your appetite
G+G       G/AG/A   G/BG/B C majorC
I'll meet you anytime you want
    C/DC/D C/EC/E FF    Bb majorBb
In our Italian Restaurant

SAX SOLO: C majorC FF Bb majorBb C majorC FF Bb majorBb
      Eb MajorEb G#G# Eb MajorEb G#G# D MajorD

G+G
Things are okay with me these days
G+G
Got a good job, got a good office
C majorC        Am7Am7
Got a new wife, got a new life
    D MajorD       D MajorD D
And the family's fine
  G+G
Oh, we lost touch long ago
G+G
You lost weight I did not know
C majorC       Am7Am7        D MajorD
You could ever look so nice after so much time

     Eb MajorEb            Bb majorBb         FF
Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green
Eb MajorEb           Bb majorBb           FF
Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans
        Eb MajorEb            Bb majorBb        FF
Woah you drop a dime in the box play the song about New Orleans
Eb MajorEb     Bb majorBb
Cold beer, hot lights
C majorC     D MajorD       G+G
My sweet romantic teenage nights

RAGTIME BIT: G+G  C majorC A minorAm D MajorD
       G+G  C majorC A minorAm D MajorD


PIANO SOLO: G+G G+G
       G+G G/F G/EG/E D MajorD
       G+G G/F G/EG/E D MajorD


G+G G/F  G/EG/E  D MajorD
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
G+G   G/F  G/EG/E  D MajorD
Oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh


G+G
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
    D MajorD               D MajorD C majorC
And the king and the queen of the prom
G+G           G/BG/B         C majorC
Riding around with the car top down and the radio on
G+G         D MajorD  D MajorD C majorC
Nobody looked any finer
    G+G          C majorC
Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
G+G           FF             E MajorE
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
    A minorAm     Am/B    C majorC      D MajorD     G+G
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive


  G/F  G/EG/E  D MajorD
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
G+G   G/F  G/EG/E  D MajorD
Oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh


G+G                       D MajorD           D MajorD C majorC
Brenda and Eddy were still going steady in the summer of seventy five
G+G           G/BG/B           C majorC
When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July
G+G            D MajorD   D MajorD C majorC
Everyone said they were crazy
G+G              C majorC
Brenda you know that you're much too lazy
G+G          FF             E MajorE
Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life
    A minorAm      Am/B  C majorC     D MajorD     G+G
Oh, but there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye


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


      C majorC
Well, they got an apartment with deep pile carpet
   D MajorD            G+G
And a couple of paintings from Sears
 C majorC
A augmentedA big waterbed that they bought with the bread
     D MajorD           G+G
They had saved for a couple of years
   C majorC
They started to fight when the money got tight
     D MajorD            E minorEm     A minorAm
And they just didn't count on the tears, woh oh, woh oh...yeah rock n roll


SAX SOLO: G+G D MajorD
      G+G G/BG/B C majorC
      G+G D MajorD D MajorD C majorC
      G+G C majorC
      G+G FF E MajorE
      A minorAm Am/B C majorC D MajorD


G+G G/F  G/EG/E  D MajorD
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh


      C majorC
Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style
     D MajorD             G+G
But it's always the same in the end
   C majorC
They got a divorce as a matter of course
     D MajorD              G+G
And they parted the closest of friends
     C majorC
Then the king and the queen went back to the green
      D MajorD          E minorEm    A minorAm   D MajorD
But you can never go back there again, oh oh, oh oh


G+G                     D MajorD           D MajorD C majorC
Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of seventy five
     G+G           G/BG/B
From the high to the low to the end of the show
    C majorC
For the rest of their lives
   G+G            D MajorD    D MajorD C majorC
They couldn't go back to the greasers
  G+G              C majorC
The best they could do was pick up their pieces
G+G             FF           E MajorE
We always knew they would both find a way to get by
A minorAm      Am/B    C majorC     D MajorD
That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
A minorAm       Am/B     C majorC     D MajorD
Can't tell you more cause I told you already
  A minorAm     Am/B  C majorC     D MajorD     G+G
And here we are waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye


  G/F  G/EG/E  D MajorD
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
G+G G/F  G/EG/E  D MajorD
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
G+G G/F  G/EG/E  D MajorD
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh


RUN DOWN: (NOTES) FF E MajorE D MajorD C majorC BB A augmentedA
          C majorC Bb majorBb A augmentedA G+G FF E MajorE


FF Bb majorBb    C majorC  Bb majorBb FF
  Yeah yeah yeah
C majorC C/Bb A minorAm Am/Bb C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC Bb majorBb


FF        Bb majorBb
A augmentedA bottle of red, oooh a bottle of white
C majorC              Bb majorBb  FF
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
G+G       G/AG/A   G/BG/B C majorC
I'll meet you anytime you want
    C/DC/D C/EC/E FF    Bb majorBb
In our Italian Restaurant

SAX OUTRO: C majorC FF Bb majorBb C majorC FF Bb majorBb
      DmDm E minorEm FF G+G C majorC

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---|