Fairies Wear Boots
| "Fairies Wear Boots" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Black Sabbath | |
| from the album Paranoid | |
| A-side | "After Forever" |
| Released | 18 September 1970 |
| Recorded | 1970 |
| Genre | Heavy metal |
| Length | 6:14 |
| Label | Vertigo |
| Songwriter(s) | |
| Producer(s) | Rodger Bain |
"Fairies Wear Boots" is a song by the English heavy metal band Black Sabbath, appearing on their 1970 album Paranoid. It was released in 1971 as the B-side to the single "After Forever".
On original 1970 US copies of the Paranoid album, the song's intro was listed under the title "Jack the Stripper", formatted as "Jack the Stripper/Fairies Wear Boots".
The song has been ranked the 11th best Black Sabbath song.