Fairies Wear Boots

Infobox Single
Name = Fairies Wear Boots


Cover size =
Caption =
Artist = Black Sabbath
from Album = Paranoid
A-side = Fairies Wear Boots
B-side =
Released = 1970
Format = 45 RPM
Recorded = 1970
Genre = Heavy metal
Length = 6:14(album)
Label = Vertigo
Writer = Iommi, Osbourne, Butler, Ward
Producer =
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "War Pigs"
This single = "Fairies Wear Boots"
Next single = "Sweet Leaf"
Misc =
prev = "Rat Salad"
prev_no = 7
next =
next_no =

"Fairies Wear Boots" is a Black Sabbath song from their 1970 album "Paranoid".

In the liner notes to "", 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." [Black Box: The Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970-1978)] Afterwords, they wrote the lyrics to "Fairies Wear Boots." [Black Sabbath Black Box Orginal Black Sabbath] Fact|date=February 2007 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."Fact|date=November 2007

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.