Billy Joel - Scenes From An Italian Restaurant,

INTRO: 
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 bottle of white, a bottle of red
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Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
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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, um umm
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 bottle of red, a bottle of white
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It all depends on your appetite
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I'll meet you anytime you want
     
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In our Italian Restaurant

Sax SOLO: 
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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's fine
   
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Oh, we 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 after so much time

      
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Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green
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Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans
           
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Woah you drop a dime in the box play the song about New Orleans
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Cold beer, hot lights
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My sweet romantic teenage nights

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Piano SOLO: 
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
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Oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh

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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 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 more than that out of life
     
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Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive

  
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
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Oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh

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Brenda and Eddy were still going steady in the summer 
of seventy five
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When they decided the marriage would 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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Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life
     
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Oh, but there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye

  
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh

       
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Well, they got an apartment with deep pile carpet
    
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And a couple of paintings from Sears
 
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 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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And they just didn't count on the tears, woh oh, woh oh...
yeah rock n roll

Sax SOLO: 
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh

       
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Well, 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, oh oh, oh oh

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Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of seventy five
      
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From the high to the low to the end of the show
     
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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 find a way to get by
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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 Eddie goodbye

  
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
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Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh

RUN DOWN: (NOTES) 
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  Yeah yeah yeah
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 bottle of red, oooh a bottle of white
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Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
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I'll meet you anytime you want
     
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In our Italian Restaurant

Sax OUTRO: 
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