Last Request | Chords + Lyrics (Capo 3)
Intro
| D | F#m | Am | Em |
Verse 1
||: D | F#m | Am | Em :||
Slow down, lie down. Remember it’s just you and me.
Don’t sell out, bow out. Remember how this used to be.
Bridge 1
||: G Bm | Em :||
I just want you closer, is that alright?
Baby let’s get closer, tonight.
Chorus 1
||: D A/C# | Bm | Em | G A :||
Grant my last request and just let me hold you. Don’t shrug your shoulders, lay down beside me.
Sure I can accept that we’re going nowhere. But one last time let’s go there, lay down beside me, oh.
Verse 2
And I’ve found that I’m bound, to wander down that one-way road, oh.
And I realized all about your lies, but I’m no wiser than the fool that I was before.
Bridge 2
I just want you closer, is that alright?
Baby let’s get closer, tonight.
Chorus 2
Grant my last request and just let me hold you. Don’t shrug your shoulders, lay down beside me.
And sure I can accept that we’re going nowhere. But one last time let’s go there, ooh, lay down beside me.
Bridge 3
Oh, baby, baby, baby.
Tell me how can, how can this be wrong?
Chorus 3
Grant my last request and just let me hold you. Don’t shrug your shoulders, lay down beside me.
Sure I can accept that we’re going nowhere. But one last time let’s go there, lay down beside me.
Chorus 4
Grant my last request and just let me hold you. Don’t shrug your shoulders, lay down beside me.
And sure I can accept that we’re going nowhere. But one last time let’s go there, lay down beside me.
Outro (same as chorus)
| D A/C# | Bm | Em | G A |
Oh, woah-oh. Yeah, lay down beside.
| D A/C# | Bm | Em | G A | D |
But one last time let’s go there, lay down beside me.
Last Request Chords: Learn the progressions
The Intro/Verse chords are I – III – Vm – II. This is not your average chord progression. Thinking in the key of D (capo on fret 3), you get this:
| D (I) | F#m (III) | Am (Vm) | Em (II) |
The Vm chord is extremely rare, I can only think of A Natural Woman that uses this chord. Rhythmically, this part does remind me of Price Tag by Jessie J.
The bridge/middle 8 is more common although still rare, using the IV – VI – II chord progression. It looks like this when translated to the key of D:
| G (IV) Bm (VI) | Em (II) |
The chorus is very traditional with all movements appearing in hundreds of hits. using Roman Numerals, it’s I – V/3 – VI – II – IV – V. Thinking in the key of D, that spells:
| D (I) A/C# (V) | Bm (VI) | Em (II) | G (IV) A (V) |
I’ve designed TAB for all sections of Last Request, adjusted to work on a single acoustic guitar. Here’s a link to that part of the lesson: Last Request – Guitar Lesson with TAB.
After going through my ideas, and possibly adjusting them a bit, a simple chord chart will be helpful at the gig, here’s one I made for you.
Last Request Chord Chart | PDF + iReal Pro
Should you want to download this chart, here’s a PDF: Last Request Chord Chart PDF.
This chord chart was created using iReal Pro, here’s a link to that file: Last Request iReal Pro.
Using this and the iRealPro app, you can change the key which is essential in case you don’t have a capo or someone else wants a chart. Don’t forget, this was designed to be played using a capo.
Last Request is from Paolo Nutini’s amazing debut album These Streets!
Released in 2007, These Streets was Paolo Nutini’s debut. It launched him to the U.K. audience as the next big thing thanks to the tunes on the album.
I was very fortunate to be on the tour that followed and saw first-hand how Paolo worked his way from 800-capacity venues to 2000-capacity.
During that time he also released the follow-up but it was the early tunes, Rewind, Jenny Don’t Be Hasty, New Shoes and what you find above, Last Request, that worked best.
Several albums later, he still hasn’t managed to write simple, sing-along-friendly tunes like on that first attempt.
This is not something he is alone in, the band I was with, supporting him had the same fate. Our singer also had ten or so fantastic tunes, but after the album was shelved by the label, he never wrote anything like it again.
It’s clear to me that in many young songwriters, it is that first stint of tunes that is the gold dust.
To give you another, more worldwide-known phenomenon, Guns N’ Roses wrote all their big hits before they released their debut. The record label cleverly saved a few for the albums that followed and in doing so created the biggest band in the world.
Last Request Chords | Related Pages
Last Request | Guitar Lesson + TAB
With this guitar lesson, you can learn to play Last Request by Paolo Nutini using TAB and chord analysis.
| D | F#m | Am | Em |
Slow down, lie down. Remember it’s just you and me…
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Paolo Nutini’s career started when an artist was late to perform at his school, Paolo was asked by the music teacher to go up and sing a song.
The reaction from the crowd to Paolo’s naturally stunning voice caught the attention of his (soon-to-be) manager who happened to be in the crowd.
Paolo Nutini on the web
About me | Dan Lundholm
This was a guitar lesson about Last Request chords, by Dan Lundholm. Discover more about him and how you can learn guitar with Spytunes.
Most importantly, find out why you should learn guitar through playing tunes, not practising scales, and studying theory in isolation.
