Well I've always been a fan of early Sabbath in particular, So I was listening to Paranoid, and track eight came up... Now I have a lot of affection toward guitar intros and riffs, and this song is just chalk full of fantastic cutis anserina(goose bump)-forming guitar spiels. This song is composed of two parts, Jack The Stripper, and Fairies Wear Boots. Jack the Stripper is the instrumental intro, and the instrumental part after the first chorus, while Fairies Wear Boots is the verse and chorus of the song. This song was released on Black Sabbath's second album, Paranoid, in 1970, which hit the UK's top album shortly after its' release. The meanings of the song are quite differed, and there are a few different stories to it. According to Tommie Iommi(guitarist), Ozzy Osbourne(vocalist) and Geezer Butler(bassist) were smoking cannabis outside and observed fairies wearing boots, so they later wrote the lyrics to this song. According to Geezer, they were encountered by skinheads, and derogatorily called them fairies, fairies being a derogatory term for feminine males, and wrote the lyrics after that. According to Ozzy, he wrote this song while he was not in his right state of mind, and has no idea what it is about.
