Billy Joel - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant, аккорды

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:
    
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