INTRO: F A# C A# 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 Sax SOLO: C F A# C F A# D# G# D# G# D G Things are okay with me these days G Got a good job, got a good office C Am7 Got a new wife, got a new life D D D And the family's fine G Oh, we lost touch long ago G You lost weight I did not know C Am7 D You could ever look so nice after so much time D# A# F Do you remember those days hanging out at the village green D# A# F Engineer boots, leather jackets and tight blue jeans D# A# F Woah you drop a dime in the box play the song about New Orleans D# A# Cold beer, hot lights C D G My sweet romantic teenage nights G C Am D }x2 Piano SOLO: G G G G/F G/E D }x2 G G/F G/E D Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh G G/F G/E 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 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 E We never knew we could want more than that out of life Am Am/B C D G Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive G/F G/E D Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh G G/F G/E D Oh, oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh G D D C Brenda and Eddy were still going steady in the summer of seventy five G G/B C When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July G D D C Everyone said they were crazy G C Brenda you know that you're much too lazy G F E Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life Am Am/B C D G Oh, but there we were waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye G/F G/E D Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh C Well, they got an apartment with deep pile carpet D G And a couple of paintings from Sears C A big waterbed that they bought with the bread D G They had saved for a couple of years C They started to fight when the money got tight D Em Am And they just didn't count on the tears, woh oh, woh oh... yeah rock n roll Sax SOLO: G D G G/B C G D D C G C G F E Am Am/B C D G G/F G/E D Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh C Well, they lived for a while in a very nice style D G But it's always the same in the end C They got a divorce as a matter of course D G And they parted the closest of friends C Then the king and the queen went back to the green D Em Am D But you can never go back there again, oh oh, oh oh G D D C Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the summer of seventy five G G/B From the high to the low to the end of the show 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 their pieces G F E We always knew they would both find a way to get by Am Am/B C D That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie Am Am/B C D Can't tell you more cause I told you already Am Am/B C D G And here we are waving Brenda and Eddie goodbye G/F G/E D Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh G G/F G/E D Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh G G/F G/E D Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh RUN DOWN: (NOTES) F E D C B A C A# A G F E F A# C A# F Yeah yeah yeah C C/A# Am Am/A# C A# C A# F A# A bottle of red, oooh a bottle of white C A# F Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight G G/A G/B C I'll meet you anytime you want C/D C/E F A# In our Italian Restaurant Sax OUTRO: C F A# C F A# Dm Em F G C