Billy Joel - Scenes from an Italian Restaurant: Guitar Chords
Learn to play 'Scenes from an Italian Restaurant' on your guitar with our detailed chord guide and lyrics. This page provides everything you need to perform this song on the guitar, including lyrics integrated with chords, chord diagrams, and a key transposer to match your vocal range.
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Learn Scenes from an Italian Restaurant Guitar Chords and Lyrics by Billy Joel
This section will guide you through each part of the song, providing the guitar chords placed directly above the lyrics for easy playing. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced player, these elements will help you perform 'Scenes from an Italian Restaurant' smoothly on your guitar.
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F A# A bottle of white, a bottle of red C A# F Perhaps a bottle of rose instead C C/A# Am Get a table near the street Am/A# C In our old familiar place A# C A# You and I, face to face, um umm F A# A bottle of red, a bottle of white C A# 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 G D/G 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 G/D D And the family's fine G D/G We lost touch long ago G7 You lost weight G9 I did not know C F You could ever look so good after Dsus4 G/D D So much ti-i-i-me. D# A# You remember those days hanging out F At the village green D# A# Engineer boots, leather jackets F And tight blue jeans D# Drop a dime in the box play the A# F Song about New Orleans D# A# Cold beer, hot lights C Gm7/C My sweet romantic teenage nights Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies And the king and the queen of the prom Riding around with the car top down And the radio on Nobody looked any finer Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner We never knew we could want More than that out of life Surely Brenda and Eddie Would always know how to survive Brenda and Eddie were still going steady In the summer of '75 When they decided their marriage Should be at the end of July Everyone said they were crazy “Brenda, you know that you're much too lazy And Eddie could never afford To live that kind of life.” Oh, but there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye Well, they got an apartment with deep pile carpets And a couple of paintings from Sears A big waterbed that they bought with the bread They had saved for a couple of years They started to fight when the money got tight And they just didn't count on the tears Yeah, rock and roll! Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style But it's always the same in the end They got a divorce as a matter of course And they parted, the closest of friends Then the king and the queen went back to the green But you can never go back there again Brenda and Eddie had had it already By the summer of '75 From the high to the low To the end of the show For the rest of their lives They couldn't go back to the Greasers The best they could do Was pick up their pieces We always knew they would Both find a way to get by And that's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie Can't tell you more 'cause I told you already And here we are waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye Bottle of red, bottle of white Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight I'll meet you anytime you want In our Italian restaurant You can simplify chords by removing barre | TransposeReset Font SizeReset Guitar Chord DiagramsA  A#  Am  B  C  D  D#  Dsus4  E  F  G  G7  G9  Gm7  Here you can see detailed diagrams for each guitar chord used in the song. Utilize our key transposer to adjust the chords to a key that better fits your singing range. Simply select the desired key, and the chords throughout this page will update automatically, ensuring you can play and sing comfortably. |
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