Key: F
Introduction: F Gm7 C Bb F C F
F Gm7/F
A bottle of white, a bottle of red
C/F Bb/F F
Perhaps a bottle of rose instead
C Bb F/A
We'll get a table near the street
Gm7 C
In our old familiar place
Bb C Gm7 C Bb C
You and I--fa-a-ace to face hmmm
F Gm7/F
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
C/F Bb/F F
It all depends on your appetite
G7 F/A G/B C
I'll meet you any ti-i-me you want
Bb/D C/E
In our Italian Restau-.
F7M
rant
Ebmaj7 Abmaj7 Ebmaj7 Abmaj7
G D
Things are okay with me these days
G7 G9
Got a good job, got a good office
C F
Got a new wife, got a new life
D4 D D4
And the family's fine
G D
We lost touch long ago
G7
You lost weight
G9
I did not know
C F
You could ever look so good after
D4 D D4
So much ti-i-i-me.
Eb Bb
You remember those days hanging out
F
At the village green
Eb Bb
Engineer boots, leather jackets
F
And tight blue jeans
Eb
Drop a dime in the box play the
Bb F
Song about New Orleans
Eb Bb
Cold beer, hot lights
C
My sweet romantic teenage
G7M F D
nights
G7M F
2/4
D
G
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
D C
And the king and the queen of the prom
G G/B C F C F C
Riding around with the car top down and the radio on
G D C
Nobody looked any finer
G C
Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
G F E7
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
Am7 G/B C D G
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive.
F Em D G
Oooh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
F Em D
Oooh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
G D C
Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the summer of '75
G G/B C F C F C
When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July
G D
Everyone said they were crazy
G C
"Brenda you know you're much too lazy
G F E7
Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life."
Am7 G/B C D G
But there we were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye.
F Em D
Oh oh oh oh oh oh
F/C
They got an apartment with deep pile carpet
D G
And a couple of paintings from Sears
F/C
A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
D G
They had saved for a couple of years
F/C
They started to fight when the money got tight
D Em
And they just didn't count on the tears.
A7 Am7/D
Whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh
G D
C F C
G D
G F E7
G/B D
oh
Em D
F/C
They lived for a while in a very nice style
D C G
But it's always the same in the end
F/C
They got a divorce as a matter of course
D C G
And they parted the closest of freh- ends
F/C
Then the king and the queen went back to the green
D Em
But you can never go back there again.
A7 Am7/D
Whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh
G
Brenda and Eddie had had it already
D C D C
By the summer of '75
G
From the high to the low
G/B
To the end of the show
C F C F C
For the rest of their lives
G D C
They couldn't go back to the greasers
G C
The best they could do was pick up the pieces
G F E7
We always knew they would both find a way to get by
Am7 G/B C D
That's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
Am7 G/B C D
Can't tell you more than I told you already
Am7 G/B C D G
And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie good
F D
Bye.
F
h oh oh oh
F Gm7/F
A bottle of red, ooooo and bottle of white
C/F Bb/F F
Whatever kind of mood you're in tonight
G7 F/A G/B C
I'll meet you any time you want
Bb C
In our Italian Restau-
F Gm7/F
C/E G7
Transcription and chart
Peter Kruger