Paolo Nutini – Pencil Full of Lead (Chords)
What’s she doing with a bloody mandolin? There’s already enough mando/uke confusion out there. Luckily, most commenters were distracted by the drummer.
Suggested Strumming
This will see you most of the way:
Twice for D, once for G, once for D.
For the A – G – D – A chords and the end of each verse just do the first half of the bar (four down strums) for each chord.
Chord Inversions
With the song just being 3 chords, it’s a great place to start playing with chord inversions (playing the same chord in a different way) and chord substitutions (playing one chord in the place of another).
A dead easy chord substitution you could use in this song is to use 7 chords (D7, G7, A7). And of course, you’ve got inversions of the 7 chords.
Put these together and you could play a verse like this:
She didn’t request it, but this one is for Ida.
I’m new to the uke, so be gentle if I’m missing something obvious…
After the strum visual, you continue to write of C chords until the inversions. Do you mean D, as the song is lacking a C?