Fairies Wear Boots

In the liner notes to Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970-1978), Tony Iommi states that the song title comes from when "Geezer And Ozzy were smoking outside and witnessed fairies in the park, running around wearing boots. As far as Tony knows, it didn't come from an attack from skinheads." ^[1] Afterwards, they wrote the lyrics to "Fairies Wear Boots." ^[2]^{[citation needed]} The song contains an instrumental at the beginning called "Jack the Stripper".

An earlier version of "Fairies Wear Boots", taken from a session for the BBC's John Peel Sunday Show dated April 26, 1970, is on the bonus disc of the Ozzy Osbourne release The Ozzman Cometh.^{[citation needed]}

Cover versions

American all-female metal band Phantom Blue covered the song on their 1995 album Prime Cuts & Glazed Donuts.
American glam rock band Toilet Böys include the song on their EP Sinners and Saints.
Rose Hill Drive, an American power trio, covered "Fairies Wear Boots" at the 2007 Hyde Park Calling festival.
American jam band Widespread Panic covered the song during their summer 2007 tour.

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