Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

[Intro]
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Bb F C7

[Verse 1]
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 A bottle of white,    a bottle of red
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    Perhaps a bottle of rose    instead
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 We'll get a table near    the street
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In our old familiar place
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You and I, face  to face, mmm

[Verse 2]
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 A bottle of red,  a bottle of white
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      It all depends upon your appetite
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 I'll meet you any time you want In our Italian
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restaurant

[Solo Sax]
Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7
Ebmaj7 Abmaj7/Eb Ebmaj7 Abmaj7/Eb
Gsus4/D D

[Verse 3]
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Things are okay with me   these days
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Got a good job, got a good office
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Got a new wife, got  a new life
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And the family is fine
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Oh, lost touch long ago
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    You lost weight, I did not know
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 You could ever look     so nice
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After so much time
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 Do you remember those days

[Verse 4]
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Hanging out at the Village Green?
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Engineer boots, leather jackets
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And tight blue jeans
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Oh, you drop a dime in the box
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Play the song about New Orleans
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  Cold beer,  hot lights
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 My sweet romantic teenage nights

[Solo Clarnet]
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Ooh                Yeah
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Ooh
G  D G D
Ooh

[Interlude 1]
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C D G F C D G F
C D

[Verse 5]
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Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
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And the king and the queen of the prom
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Riding around with the car    top down
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And the radio on
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Nobody looked any finer
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Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
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We never knew we could want
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More than that out of life
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     Sure
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ly Brenda and Eddie Would always know how
          G  F
to survive Oh

[Bridge]
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[Verse 6]
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Brenda and Eddie were still going steady
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In the summer of 'seventy five
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When they decided their marriage
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Should be at the end of July
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Everyone said they were crazy
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"Brenda you know that you're much too lazy
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And Eddie could never afford
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To live that kind of life."      Oh
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but there  we were waving Brenda and Ed
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die goodbye Oh
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[Verse 7]
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Well, they got an apartment With deep
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pile carpets
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And a couple of paintings from Sears
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A big waterbed that they
Bought with the bread
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They had saved for a couple of years
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They started to fight When the money got tight
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                                       Em
And they just didn't count on the tears
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Oh
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Yeah, rock and roll!

[Solo Sax 2]
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G C G F E Bm11 E7/G# E Am G C Gsus4/D
G  F C Gsus4/D
 Oh

[Verse 8]
Well,
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they lived for a while in a very nice style
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But it's always the same in the end
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They got a divorce as a matter of course
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And they parted the closest of friends
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Then the king and the queen Went
back to the green
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But you can never go back there again
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Oh

[Verse 9]
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Brenda and Eddie had had it already
       D
By the summer of 'seventy five
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From the high to the low To the end
of the show
            C
For the rest of their lives
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They couldn't go back to the Greasers
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The best they could do Was pick up
their pieces
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We always knew they would Both
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find a way to get by    Oh
E          Am      G           C            Gsus4/D
 And that's  all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
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Can't tell you more 'cause I told you already
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And here we are waving Brenda and Ed
           G  F
die goodbye Oh

[Bridge]
C Gsus4/D G F C Gsus4/D G F
C Gsus4/D
F C

[Interlude 2]
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    Yeah
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Bb C

[Verse 10]
F                 Bb
 Bottle of red, uh  bottle of white
C                               Bb  F
 Whatever kind of mood you're in  tonight
G              F/A     G       C          Bb  C   F      Gm/F
 I'll meet you anytime you want In our Italian restaurant

[Solo Sax 3]
Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7 Cmaj7 Fmaj7 Bbmaj7
Dm7 Em F F/G C