Fairies Wear Boots
~ Song
Annotation
"Fairies Wear Boots" is a Black Sabbath song from their 1970 album Paranoid. The song contains an instrumental at the beginning called "Jack the Stripper". In the North American edition of the album, the songs "War Pigs" and "Fairies Wear Boots" were entitled "War Pigs / Luke's Wall" and "Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots", respectively.
Annotation last modified on 2011-08-04 06:51 UTC.
Relationships
| lyricist: | Geezer Butler Ozzy Osbourne |
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| composer: | Geezer Butler Tony Iommi Ozzy Osbourne Bill Ward |
| publisher: | Essex Music International Ltd. Essex Music International, Inc. TRO Essex Music International, Inc. Tro-Andover Music, Inc. Westminster Music Ltd. (in 1970) |
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| SecondHandSongs: | https://secondhandsongs.com/work/119894 [info] |
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| Songfacts: | http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1298 [info] |
| Wikidata: | Q2760441 [info] |
| later translated versions: | Keijujen kengät |
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| parts: | Jack the Stripper (intro to Fairies Wear Boots) |
Recordings
| Date | Title | Attributes | Artist | Length |
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| recordings | ||||
| 1970-04-26 | Fairies Wear Boots (demo) | live | Black Sabbath | 6:55 |
| 1970-06-16 – 1970-06-17 | Fairies Wear Boots (instrumental) | instrumental | Black Sabbath | 6:16 |
| 1970-06-16 – 1970-07-08 | Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots (original stereo studio mix) | Black Sabbath | 6:14 | |
| 1970-06-26 | Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1970‐06‐26: Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany) | live | Black Sabbath | 6:08 |
| 1970-08-31 | Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1970‐08‐31: Casino de Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland) | live | Black Sabbath | 8:43 |
| 1970-10-03 | Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1970‐10‐03: Théâtre 140, Schaerbeek / Schaarbeek, Belgium) | live | Black Sabbath | 6:57 |
| 1970-11-22 | Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1970‐11‐22: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, USA) | live | Black Sabbath | 6:08 |
| 1970-12-20 | Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1970‐12‐20: L’Olympia Bruno Coquatrix, Paris, France) | live | Black Sabbath | 6:40 |
| 1970 | Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots (Quadradisc mix in stereo) | Black Sabbath | 6:04 | |
| 1970 | Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots | Black Sabbath | 6:13 | |
| 1982-09-26 – 1982-09-27 | Fairies Wear Boots | live | Ozzy Osbourne | 6:33 |
| 1982-09-26 – 1982-09-27 | Faries Wear Boots | live | Ozzy Osbourne | 6:16 |
| 1982-09-26 – 1982-09-27 | Faries Wear Boots | cover and live | Ozzy Osbourne | 6:33 |
| 1992-11-15 | Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1992-11-15: Pacific Amphitheatre, Costa Mesa, CA, USA) | live | Black Sabbath | 5:59 |
| 1997-12-04 – 1997-12-05 | Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1997‐12‐04–1997‐12‐05: National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK) | live | Black Sabbath | 6:23 |
| 1998-06-03 | Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1998‐06‐03: Kisstadion, Budapest, Hungary) | live | Black Sabbath | 6:04 |
| 1999-01-08 | Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1999-01-08: San Jose Arena, San Jose, CA, USA) | live | Black Sabbath | 6:43 |
| 2005-06-25 | Fairies Wear Boots (live, 2005‐06‐25: Rockwave Festival, Terra Vibe, Malakása, Greece) | live | Black Sabbath | 6:04 |
| 2007 | Fairies Wear Boots | cover and live | Widespread Panic | 8:36 |
| 2012-05-19 | Fairies Wear Boots (live, 2012‐05‐19: O₂ Academy, Birmingham, England, UK) | live | Black Sabbath | ?:?? |
| 2013-04-29 – 2013-05-01 | Fairies Wear Boots | live | Black Sabbath | 6:34 |
| 2013-04-29 – 2013-05-01 | Fairies Wear Boots | live | Black Sabbath | 6:59 |
| 2017-02-04 | Fairies Wear Boots | live | Black Sabbath | 6:28 |
| 2017-02-04 | Fairies Wear Boots (surround mix) | live | Black Sabbath | 6:40 |
| 2022-06-04 | Fairies Wear Boots | cover and live | Led Sabbath | 11:42 |
| Fairies Wear Boots | cover | Flotsam and Jetsam | 5:57 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots | cover | No More Excuses | 6:44 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots (quadraphonic) | Black Sabbath | 6:14 | ||
| Fairies Wear Boots | live | Black Sabbath | 6:55 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots | cover | Paul Newman | 5:40 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots | cover | Zakk Wylde | ?:?? | |
| Fairies Wear Boots (live) | cover and live | Zakk Wylde | ?:?? | |
| Fairies Wear Boots | live | Black Sabbath | 6:34 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots (live, 2013‐12‐22: The NIA, Birmingham, England, UK) | live | Black Sabbath | 6:42 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots | Black Sabbath | 6:16 | ||
| Fairies Wear Boots | live | Black Sabbath | 10:51 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots (live, 2004‐08‐26: Tweeter Center, Camden, NJ, USA) | Black Sabbath | 6:53 | ||
| Fairies Wear Boots | live | Black Sabbath | 6:23 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots | Black Sabbath | 6:42 | ||
| Fairies Wear Boots | Black Sabbath | 6:53 | ||
| Fairies Wear Boots | cover | Mendozza | ?:?? | |
| Fairies Wear Boots | cover and instrumental | Jeffrey Miner | 3:11 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots | Ozzy Osbourne | ?:?? | ||
| Fairies Wear Boots | cover | Hippie Death Cult | 6:37 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots | Ozzy Osbourne | 6:22 | ||
| Fairies Wear Boots (live, 2018‐06‐01: Olympijskiy Stadium, Moscow, Russia) | Ozzy Osbourne | 6:19 | ||
| Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1983‐03‐05: Colisée de Québec, Quebec City, QC, Canada) | Ozzy Osbourne | ?:?? | ||
| Fairies Wear Boots | cover | Monolord | 12:03 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots | cover | September Code | 6:51 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots | cover and instrumental | Jazz Sabbath | 6:05 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots (8-Bit Computer Game version) | cover and instrumental | 8 Bit Arcade | 5:48 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots (demo) | Ozzy Osbourne | 6:53 | ||
| Fairies Wear Boots (live) (live) | cover and live | Flotsam and Jetsam | 5:56 | |
| Fairies Wear Boots (live) | live | Ozzy Osbourne | 6:37 | |
| Faries Wear Boots | live | Ozzy Osbourne | 6:33 | |
| Fearies Wear Boots | Ozzy Osbourne | 6:54 | ||