Last Name

"Last Name" is a song composed by country singer Carrie Underwood, Hillary Lindsey and Luke Laird. It is the third single from Underwood's second studio album, Carnival Ride. It was released in the United States on April 7, 2008, by which point the song had already charted. At the 51st Grammy Awards, the song won Underwood her third consecutive Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. The song is one of four tracks on the album co-written by Underwood, and the third consecutive one to be released as a single from the album. It is a moderate up-tempo describing a woman meeting a man at a club and later eloping with him in Las Vegas after having had too much to drink that night. She wakes up the next morning, "dreaming bout Elvis somewhere in Vegas", to discover that she does not even know her last name (i.e., she married the man while she was intoxicated), and worrying that her "mama would be so ashamed." The music video portrays the song as a prequel to her Before He Cheats song, even going so far as to hire the same actor to play the man in question.

[Verse 1] Last night, I got served a little bit too much of that poison, baby Last night, I did things I'm not proud of And I got a little crazy Last night, I met a guy on the dance floor And I let him call me baby [Chorus 1] And I don't even know his last name My mama would be so ashamed It started off, "Hey, cutie, where you from?" And then it turned into, "Oh, no, what have I done?" And I don't even know his last name Woo! [Verse 2] We left the club, right around three o'clock in the morning His Pinto, sitting there, in the parking lot When it should've been a warning I had no clue what I was getting into So, I'll blame it on the Cuervo Oh, where did my manners go? [Chorus 1] And I don't even know his last name Oh, my mama would be so ashamed It started off, "Hey, cutie, where you from?" And then it turned into, "Oh, no, what have I done?" And I don't even know his last name Here we go! [Bridge] Today, I woke up thinking about Elvis somewhere in Vegas I'm not sure how I got here Or how this ring on my left hand just appeared outta nowhere I gotta go I take the chips and the Pinto and hit the road They say what happens here, stays here, all of this will disappear There's just one little problem [Chorus 2] I don't even know my last name Oh, my mama would be so ashamed It started off, "Hey, cutie, where you from?" And then it turned into, "Oh, no! What have I done?" And I don't even know my last name [Breakdown] What have I done? What have I done? What have I done? Oh, what have I done? I don't even know my last name Well, it turned into, "Oh no, what have I done?" And I don't even know my last name Hey, yeah, yeah Yeah-eh, yeah-eh, yeah-eh, yeah-eh, yeah-eh, oh [Outro] It started off, "Hey cutie, where you from?" And then it turned into, "Oh no, what have I done?" And I don't even know my last name Oh, yeah