Scenes From An Italian Restuarant

 
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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--fa-a-ace  to face    hmmm 
 
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  A 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 any ti-i-me you want 
 
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In our Italian     Restau-. 
 
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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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We lost touch long ago 
 
  
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You lost weight 
 
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I did not know 
 
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   You could ever look so good after 
 
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So much ti-i-i-me. 
 
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You remember those days hanging out 
 
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At the village green 
 
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Engineer boots, leather jackets 
 
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And tight blue jeans 
 
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Drop a dime in the box play the 
 
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Song about New Orleans 
 
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   Cold beer,    hot lights 
 
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    My sweet romantic teenage 
 
 
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nights 
 
 
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          oh 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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Oooh oh   oh oh     oh oh   oh oh oh oh 
 
 
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Oooh oh   oh oh     oh oh   oh oh oh oh 
 
 
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  Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75 
 
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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 you're much too lazy 
 
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Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life." 
 
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But there we were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye. 
 
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Oh oh    oh oh   oh oh 
 
 
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They got an apartment with deep pile carpet 
 
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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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And they just didn't count on the tears. 
 
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Whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh 
 
 
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 Oh     oh oh 
 
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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 freh- ends 
 
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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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Whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh 
 
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Brenda and Eddie had had it already 
 
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By the summer of '75 
 
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From the high to the low 
 
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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 the 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 than I told you already 
 
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And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie good 
 
 
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Bye.    
 
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h oh   oh oh 
 
 
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   A bottle of red, ooooo   and bottle of white 
 
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    Whatever kind of mood you're in  tonight 
 
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   I'll meet you any  time you want 
 
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In our Italian Restau- 
 
 
 
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rant. 
 
 
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Transcription and chart 
Peter Kruger 
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