INTRO FA SIb DO SIb
FA SIb
A bottle of white, a bottle of red
DO SIb FA
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
DO DO/SIb LAm
Get a table near the street
LAm/SIb DO
In our old familiar place
SIb DO SIb
You and I, face to face, um umm
FA SIb
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
DO SIb FA
It all depends on your appetite
SOL SOL/LA SOL/SI DO
I'll meet you anytime you want
DO/RE DO/MI FA SIb
In our Italian Restaurant
SAX SOLO: C F Bb C F Bb
MIb SOL# MIb SOL# RE
SOL
Things are okay with me these days
SOL
Got a good job, got a good office
DO LAm7
Got a new wife, got a new life
RE RE RE
And the family's fine
SOL
Oh, we lost touch long ago
SOL
You lost weight I did not know
DO LAm7 RE
You could ever look so nice after so much time
MIb SIb FA
Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green
MIb SIb FA
Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans
MIb SIb FA
Woah you drop a dime in the box play the song about New Orleans
MIb SIb
Cold beer, hot lights
DO RE SOL
My sweet romantic teenage nights
RAGTIME BIT: G C Am D
SOL DO LAm RE
PIANO SOLO: G G
SOL SOL/FA SOL/MI RE
SOL SOL/FA SOL/MI RE
SOL SOL/FA SOL/MI RE
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
SOL SOL/FA SOL/MI RE
Oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
SOL
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
RE RE DO
And the king and the queen of the prom
SOL SOL/SI DO
Riding around with the car top down and the radio on
SOL RE RE DO
Nobody looked any finer
SOL DO
Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
SOL FA MI
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
LAm LAm/SI DO RE SOL
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive
SOL/FA SOL/MI RE
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
SOL SOL/FA SOL/MI RE
Oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
SOL RE RE DO
Brenda and Eddy were still going steady in the summer of seventy five
SOL SOL/SI DO
When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July
SOL RE RE DO
Everyone said they were crazy
SOL DO
Brenda you know that you're much too lazy
SOL FA MI
Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life
LAm LAm/SI DO RE SOL
Oh, but there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye
SOL/FA SOL/MI RE
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
DO
Well, they got an apartment with deep pile carpet
RE SOL
And a couple of paintings from Sears
DO
A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
RE SOL
They had saved for a couple of years
DO
They started to fight when the money got tight
RE MIm LAm
And they just didn't count on the tears, woh oh, woh oh...yeah rock n roll
SAX SOLO: G D
SOL SOL/SI DO
SOL RE RE DO
SOL DO
SOL FA MI
LAm LAm/SI DO RE
SOL SOL/FA SOL/MI RE
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh
DO
Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style
RE SOL
But it's always the same in the end
DO
They got a divorce as a matter of course
RE SOL
And they parted the closest of friends
DO
Then the king and the queen went back to the green
RE MIm LAm RE
But you can never go back there again, oh oh, oh oh
SOL RE RE DO
Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of seventy five
SOL SOL/SI
From the high to the low to the end of the show
DO
For the rest of their lives
SOL RE RE DO
They couldn't go back to the greasers
SOL DO
The best they could do was pick up their pieces
SOL FA MI
We always knew they would both find a way to get by
LAm LAm/SI DO RE
That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
LAm LAm/SI DO RE
Can't tell you more cause I told you already
LAm LAm/SI DO RE SOL
And here we are waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye
SOL/FA SOL/MI RE
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
SOL SOL/FA SOL/MI RE
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
SOL SOL/FA SOL/MI RE
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh
RUN DOWN: (NOTES) F E D C B A
DO SIb LA SOL FA MI
FA SIb DO SIb FA
Yeah yeah yeah
DO DO/SIb LAm LAm/SIb DO SIb DO SIb
FA SIb
A bottle of red, oooh a bottle of white
DO SIb FA
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
SOL SOL/LA SOL/SI DO
I'll meet you anytime you want
DO/RE DO/MI FA SIb
In our Italian Restaurant
SAX OUTRO: C F Bb C F Bb
REm MIm FA SOL DO
Notes:
? Run Down: There are no chords to fit over this part, the whole band plays the run down:
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A----320-310----
E-----------310-
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