SCENE FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT Transcription and chart Peter Kruger [email protected] ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ F Gm7 C Bb F C F F Gm7/F A bottle of white, a bottle of red C/F Bb/F F Perhaps a bottle of rose instead C Bb F/A We'll get a table near the street Gm7 C In our old familiar place Bb C Gm7 C Bb C You and I--fa-a-ace to face hmmm F Gm7/F A bottle of red, a bottle of white C/F Bb/F F It all depends on your appetite G7 F/A G/B C I'll meet you any ti-i-I-me you want Bb/D C/E In our Italian Restau-. ..sax: |F |Gm7/F |C Fmaj7 |Bbmaj7 |C Fmaj7 |BbaddC | rant |Ebmaj7 |Abmaj7 |Ebmaj7 |Abmaj7 | |G7sus4 | | | | G D Things are okay with me these days G7 G9 Got a good job, got a good office C F Got a new wife, got a new life Dsus4 D Dsus4 And the family's fine G D We lost touch long ago G7 You lost weight G9 I did not know C F You could ever look so good after Dsus4 D Dsus4 So much ti-i-i-me. Eb Bb You remember those days hanging out F At the village green Eb Bb Engineer boots, leather jackets F And tight blue jeans Eb Drop a dime in the box play the Bb F Song about New Orleans Eb Bb Cold beer, hot lights C My sweet romantic teenage |G Gmaj7 |G7 |C F |Am7 D | nights |G Gmaj7 |G7 |C F |Am7 | 2/4 |D | | | | ..piano: |G | | | | |G |G/F |G/E |G/D | |G |G/F |G/E |G/D | |G |G/F |G/E |G/D | oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh |G |G/F |G/E |G/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 F C F 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 E7 We never knew we could want more than that out of life Am7 G/B C D G Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive. F Em D G Oooh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh F Em D Oooh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh G D D C Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75 G G/B C F C F C When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July G D Everyone said they were crazy G C "Brenda you know you're much too lazy G F E7 Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life." Am7 G/B C D G But there we were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye. F Em D Oh oh oh oh oh oh F/C They got an apartment with deep pile carpet D G And a couple of paintings from Sears F/C A big waterbed that they bought with the bread D G They had saved for a couple of years F/C They started to fight when the money got tight D Em And they just didn't count on the tears. A7 Am7/D Whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh yaaa rock n’ sax: |G | |D | | roll |G |G/B |C |F C F C | |G |D |G |C | |G |F |E7 | | |Am7 G/B |C D |G |F | oh |Em |D | Oh oh oh F/C They lived for a while in a very nice style D C G But it's always the same in the end F/C They got a divorce as a matter of course D C G And they parted the closest of freh- ends F/C Then the king and the queen went back to the green D Em But you can never go back there again. A7 Am7/D Whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh G Brenda and Eddie had had it already D D C By the summer of '75 G From the high to the low G/B To the end of the show C F C F 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 the pieces G F E7 We always knew they would both find a way to get by Am7 G/B C D That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie Am7 G/B C D Can't tell you more than I told you already Am7 G/B C D And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie good G F C/E D Bye. Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh G F C/E D oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh G F C/E D oh Oh oh Oh oh Oh oh oh oh oh --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ---3--2-------------------------------- ---------5--3--2--0---3--1--0---------- -------------------------------3--1--0- Oh. . . . . ^ ^ ^ ^ |F |Gm7/F |C/F |Bb/F F | oh oh oh oh ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ |C Bb |F Bb |C F C F |C | F Gm7/F A bottle of red, ooooo and bottle of white C/F Bb/F F Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight G7 F/A G/B C I'll meet you any ti-i-ime you want Bb C In our Italian Restau- |F |Gm7/F | rant. ..sax: |C Fmaj7 |Bbmaj7 |C Fmaj7 |Bbmaj7 | |Dm7 C/E |F G7 |F/C |C |
