Intro:     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-. 

               ..sax: 
|F       |Gm7/F     |C   Fmaj7  |Bbmaj7   |C    Fmaj7   |BbaddC     | 
rant 


|Ebmaj7        |Abmaj7    |Ebmaj7     |Abmaj7      | 



|G7sus4       |           |           |            | 



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 

        Dsus4     D    Dsus4 
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 

Dsus4        D   Dsus4 
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 


|G    Gmaj7  |G7          |C      F      |Am7     D     | 
nights 


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                                            2/4 

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..piano: 
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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 

G 
   Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies 

        D                               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       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               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 


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|Am7 G/B  |C    D    |G       |F           | 
                                        oh  

|Em       |D          | 
 Oh     oh oh 

      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             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        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 


|G     F     |C/E    D       | 
Bye.    

|G     F     |C/E    D       |   
   

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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        | 
rant. 


..sax: 
      |C      Fmaj7    |Bbmaj7     |C    Fmaj7     |Bbmaj7        | 



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Transcription and chart 
Peter Kruger 
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