Fairies Wear Boots

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Fairies Wear Boots is the eighth and final track from Black Sabbath's second album Paranoid.

The intro to the song was titled "Jack The Stripper".

It was released in 1971 as a B-side for the "After Forever" single.

About

The song came about when an incident occurred where Geezer and Ozzy were smoking cannabis and saw fairies in boots running around a park, but the most known story around the song was that the band got attacked by skinheads (the skinheads being the fairies in the song), but it's been proven to not be true.

Lyrics

Goin' home, late last night
Suddenly, I got a fright
Yeah, I looked through a window
And surprised what I saw
Fairy with boots and dancin' with a dwarf
Alright, now

Yeah, fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
Yeah, I saw it, I saw it, I tell you no lies
Yeah, fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me
I saw it, I saw it with my own two eyes
Alright, now
Alright, now
  
So, I went to the doctor, see what he could give me
He said, “Son, son, you’ve gone too far 'cause smokin' and trippin' is all that you do”
Yeah