Black Sabbath – Fairies Wear Boots

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  My Interpretation:basicly a guy is hulsinating and goes to the doctor to see what he could give him (when ozzy was on perscription drugs) and the doctor kinda says get of the drugs look what its doin' to ya'.

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  General Comment:...well, i was doing a colection with song's that let me crazy and are about my love too: canhamo's colection. among then, we got "sweet leaf", "maryjuana ville", "why didn't rosemery ever take the pill"... and, of course, "fairies wear boots"...

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  Song Meaning:I actually read the book "I Am Ozzy" and in it he says still has no idea what that song is about. He did say he wrote it during a night of doing hard drugs and drinking.

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  General Comment:^ yeah lol.
  
  I could have sworn it was someone beating them up because they wore boots and called them fairies? idk it was in the 70's, maybe that was normal.
  
  maybe he wasn't tripping that night, so he believed it was real and tried to convince his doctor but he's all nahhh you're just tripping again.

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  General Comment:Amazing song, with some great riffs.
  
  I love how the person in the song has gone to see the doctor claiming he has seen fairies wearing boots... he doesn't make out the issue that he's seen fairies anyway...it's just the boots part that seems strange to him :)

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    drugs can do bad stuff to ya' mate
    

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  General Comment:Don't you hate it when you go in for your check-up and the doctor just says, "Son, son, you've gone too far, 'cause smokin' and trippin' is all that you do--yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaahh"?

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  General Comment:I watched a geezer buttler interview this song is about an acid trip. same about the wizard. and i agree listen to this song stoned is the shit.

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  General Comment:'Cause smokin' and trippin' is all that you do."
  
  Love this line..........
  
  Sabbath Is GOD

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  General Comment:"despite rumors, Geezer Butler did not write this song after being assaulted by a gang of skinheads. In the liner notes to the Black Box collection, it was confirmed that the song's origin comes from Ozzy Osbourne getting high and hallucinating that he was seeing fairies wearing boots."
  
  That is if wikipedia is to be believed

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    errrr Geezer Butler wrote most of their songs, ozzy only ever wrote one. It is explained in one of their autobiography that geezy got set upon by skins head, this is nowt to do with ozzy

    Flag leiwolfon July 27, 2010  
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  General Comment:when i first listened to this song i thought it was about an acid trip. but now hearing the story of geezer getting beat up by skin heads, its definitely about that.
  
  black sabbath called the skin heads "fairies" because they were pansees.
  
  the line
  "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."
  
  explains when geezer went to the doctor to see if he could subscibe him meds and the doctor was telling him he shouldn't do drugs anymore.

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