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
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)
SecondHandSongs:https://secondhandsongs.com/work/119894 [info]
Songfacts:http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1298 [info]
Wikidata:Q2760441 [info]
later translated versions:Keijujen kengät
parts:Jack the Stripper (intro to Fairies Wear Boots)

Recordings

DateTitleAttributesArtistLength
recordings
1970-04-26Fairies Wear Boots (demo)liveBlack Sabbath6:55
1970-06-16 – 1970-06-17Fairies Wear Boots (instrumental)instrumentalBlack Sabbath6:14
1970-06-16 – 1970-06-17Fairies Wear Boots (instrumental)instrumentalBlack Sabbath6:16
1970-06-16 – 1970-07-08Fairies Wear Boots (Prof. Stoned stereo remix)Black Sabbath6:13
1970-06-16 – 1970-07-08Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots (original stereo studio mix)Black Sabbath6:14
1970-06-26Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1970‐06‐26: Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany)liveBlack Sabbath6:08
1970-08-31Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1970‐08‐31: Casino de Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland)liveBlack Sabbath8:43
1970-10-03Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1970‐10‐03: Théâtre 140, Schaerbeek / Schaarbeek, Belgium)liveBlack Sabbath6:57
1970-11-22Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1970‐11‐22: Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, USA)liveBlack Sabbath6:08
1970-12-20Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1970‐12‐20: L’Olympia Bruno Coquatrix, Paris, France)liveBlack Sabbath6:40
1970Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear BootsBlack Sabbath6:13
1970Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear Boots (Quadradisc mix in stereo)Black Sabbath6:04
1982-09-26 – 1982-09-27Fairies Wear BootsliveOzzy Osbourne6:33
1982-09-26 – 1982-09-27Faries Wear BootsliveOzzy Osbourne6:16
1982-09-26 – 1982-09-27Faries Wear Bootscover and liveOzzy Osbourne6:33
1992-11-15Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1992-11-15: Pacific Amphitheatre, Costa Mesa, CA, USA)liveBlack Sabbath5:59
1997-12-04 – 1997-12-05Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1997‐12‐04–1997‐12‐05: National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK)liveBlack Sabbath6:23
1998-06-03Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1998‐06‐03: Kisstadion, Budapest, Hungary)liveBlack Sabbath6:04
1999-01-08Fairies Wear Boots (live, 1999-01-08: San Jose Arena, San Jose, CA, USA)liveBlack Sabbath6:43
2005-06-25Fairies Wear Boots (live, 2005‐06‐25: Terra Vibe Park, Malakasa, Greece)liveBlack Sabbath6:04
2007Fairies Wear Bootscover and liveWidespread Panic8:36
2012-05-19Fairies Wear Boots (live, 2012-05-19: O2 Academy, Birmingham, UK)liveBlack Sabbath?:??
2013-04-29 – 2013-05-01Fairies Wear BootsliveBlack Sabbath6:34
2013-04-29 – 2013-05-01Fairies Wear BootsliveBlack Sabbath6:59
2017-02-04Fairies Wear BootsliveBlack Sabbath6:28
2017-02-04Fairies Wear Boots (surround mix)liveBlack Sabbath6:40
2022-06-04Fairies Wear Bootscover and liveLed Sabbath11:42
Fairies Wear Bootscover and instrumentalRockabye Baby!3:11
Fairies Wear Boots (quadraphonic)Black Sabbath6:14
Fairies Wear BootsliveBlack Sabbath6:55
Fairies Wear BootscoverPaul Newman5:40
Fairies Wear BootscoverFlotsam and Jetsam5:55
Fairies Wear BootscoverZakk Wylde?:??
Fairies Wear Boots (live)cover and liveZakk Wylde?:??
Fairies Wear BootscoverMonolord12:05
Fairies Wear BootsBlack Sabbath?:??
Fairies Wear BootsliveBlack Sabbath6:34
Fairies Wear BootsliveBlack Sabbath6:42
Fairies Wear BootsliveBlack Sabbath6:43
Fairies Wear BootsBlack Sabbath6:16
Fairies Wear BootsliveBlack Sabbath10:51
Fairies Wear BootsBlack Sabbath6:53
Fairies Wear BootsliveBlack Sabbath6:23
Fairies Wear BootsBlack Sabbath6:42
Fairies Wear BootsBlack Sabbath6:53
Fairies Wear Bootscover and instrumental8‐Bit Arcade5:48
Fairies Wear BootscoverJazz Sabbath6:05
Fairies Wear BootscoverMendozza?:??
Fairies Wear BootscoverNo More Excuses6:44
Fairies Wear BootsBlack Sabbath6:12
Fairies Wear BootsOzzy Osbourne?:??
Fairies Wear BootscoverHippie Death Cult6:37
Fairies Wear BootsOzzy Osbourne6:22
Fairies Wear BootsOzzy Osbourne6:19
Fairies Wear BootsOzzy Osbourne?:??
Fairies Wear Boots (demo)Ozzy Osbourne6:53
Fairies Wear Boots (live)liveOzzy Osbourne6:37
Faries Wear BootsliveOzzy Osbourne6:33
Fearies Wear BootsOzzy Osbourne6:54
Jack the Stripper / Fairies Wear BootsmedleyBlack Sabbath6:13