The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke

Album: Queen II (1974)
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  • He's a fairy feller

    The fairy folk have gathered 'round the new moon shine
    To see the feller crack a nut at night's noon time
    To swing his axe he swears, as he climbs he dares
    To deliver
    The master stroke

    Ploughman, "waggoner will" and types
    Politician with senatorial pipe, he's a dilly-dally-o
    Pedagogue squinting, wears a frown
    And a satyr peers under lady's gown, dirty fellow
    What a dirty laddio
    Tatterdemalion and the junketer
    There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter, he's my hero
    Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend
    The nymph in yellow (can we see the master stroke)
    What a quaere fellow

    Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, ploughboy
    Waiting to hear the sound
    And the arch-magician presides
    He is the leader

    Oberon and Titania watched by a harridan
    Mab is the queen and there's a good apothecary-man
    Come to say hello
    Fairy dandy tickling the fancy of his lady friend
    The nymph in yellow
    What a quaere fellow
    The ostler stares with hands on his knees
    Come on mister feller, crack it open if you please Writer/s: Freddie Mercury
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 2

  • Alan Theasby from UkSurely not a QUEER fellow as spelt in the lyrics, but a *queare (Anglo-Saxon cwēr) one, quaere (Latinised) or quaire ("Irish")...?
  • Justin Sullivan from Rochester NyWhere else was it played
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