Queen - The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke Lyrics

The high pitched voice, it is Roger right?!?!!

0:52 OMG IS SO GOOD

Queen mab speech?

I had bought Queen ll in 74, vinyl. I gave it to a friend and never got it back... Now presently have remastered CD version (2011, Bob Ludwig). I don't remember what it sounded like on original vinyl. How do they compare ? Anyone? Thanks 💛

Man, the way the albums are officialy uploaded destroys all the continuity of the medleys. This song is supposed to be continuing Ogre Battle, but instead it begins with a long silence. The same with Nevermore, wich follows.

Im a dirty fellow for not listening to more Queen song earlier.

Best 2 songs (this and next one)

all queen songs at the beginning were 2 minutes asd i like it

Been a Queen fan since I was 12 in 1974. Went from Simon and Garfunkel in the 1960s directly to Queen. True musicians. I don't give a damn about their personal sexuality I'm here for the tunes.


I had every album that they made on an actual record when it first came out at one point up until the late 1980s when they sold out and went to shit.


EX whore of a wife stole those albums... another story best left in the past.


I would carefully clean each new album and record it on cassette. No album ever got played more than 3 times. Perfect audio on the tape. Wore out several tapes... I had to break out the album and re-record. lol One of my favorite bands - I still love the old shite. Queen, Queen II... Much like Rush, another favorite... attended every concert I could make it to. Queen never came to my town... sad story. I owned all of their old school records(Rush) , and just like queen they only got cleaned and played to record them to tape, and then played the hell out of on that tape...

I don’t think this is about a sword...

The piano at the very end of this song (2:35) is the same as the piano at the beginning of nevermore.

Freddie Mercury's my dad :) - That one dude over Discord at 3 AM

...i'm crying they're just superior

This bassline is magnificent

I think we got the gist Fred... 😉 Btw it's "stands" not "stares", The "Official Queen channel" lol

Another influence of the painting: The Lastborn of Elvinwood, Linda Haldeman, 1978. Excellent fantasy novel.

I love that picture too. Thanks Freddy

Well the left channel in my headphones stopped working, and holy shit this is wild.

Español??? Alguien?

"In 1843 at the age of 26, the noted English artist Richard Dadd killed his father believing that his father was the devil and that he (Dadd) had been called upon by God to do battle with the forces of evil. Despite being confined in asylums (first the Bethlem and then Broadmoor) for the remainder of his life, Dadd went on to do some of his best work including the famous The Fairy Fellers Master Stroke which can be seen in the Tate Gallery today."

This is rock?NO
progressive?NO
Pop?NO
Psichedelic?NO
THIS IS QUEEN!

Sweet bassline

"The Fairy Fellers Master-Stroke" was an odd song but I enjoyed it. 👍

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

Ploughman, Waggoner Will, and types

Politician with senatorial pope, 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 a 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, mr. Feller, crack it open if you please

You can see the inspiration for this song in Tate Britain, City of Westminster

i love queens 70s songs soooo much ahhhhhhhhhhh

Ta(y)ilor

John's and his bass is beautiful

Only in later years,do you realise the true genius..not only of this track,but the whole album

THE FUCKING BASSLINE........ GOLD

Fairy king and fairy feller
Black queen and white queen

Have to be an Old English scholar to try to figure out what the lyrics actually are interpreted as... Pretty ballsy. Sort of douche too.

For those interested. The song is about this painting. Follow along if you can! Painted by Richard Dadd in the mid 1800's while he was in an insane asylum. https://images.app.goo.gl/eRCGu34cVZe3QSPe6

Perdi la vida detras de kiss cuando facil pude ser fan fuerte de Queen q es lo mejor

Good song

english baroque at its top. Queen were noblemen during the reign of Charles II in antoher life.

one their best song ever.

What song playlist am i supposed to put this one in?????

Put it in any playlist.

And then Nevermore....

AND IF HE TALKS ABOUT THE ROCKEFELLER'S FAMILY??????

LEYENDA!

Ooooooh 667th.

The bass is making me feel some kind of way 🙈

And people say boh rhap is hard to understand

Roger said : "I never once saw Freddie with a book. But he had all these words about this painting. Fred was like a magpie. He had this very sharp brain but he was not what you'd call a well-read man."

Queen is my favorite rock band and their early albums are phenomenal god bless his soul Freddie Mercury

The Masterstroke.

Esta musica arrepia me de emocao

0:41 Freddie has a real cute voice crack while say "will and, types " and it makes me smile every time I hear it

Im Awkward not a voice crack

La chanson que j aime !!!! Un chef d oeuvre putain !!! Que dire !!! Juste écouter

1:00
I love this part so much

I swear this is the most underatted song from Queen II

ConTayJus Loves 1D totally agree

Déjame adivinar VSX?

¿Qué comes que adivinas?

I really need dictionary only when listening to Queen's music.. 😊😊

I always thought it was "The Earth still stands with hands on his knees." It makes so much sense now.

To write and sing this song you have to be and extraordinary musician!!!! Its so unique.... only dear Mr Mercury can do this.!!!!

The Chorus best

0:52 WTF SOUNDS LIKE A FEMALE VOICE :0

Queen is amazing. That is all

3 words...what a fuck! A masterpiece!

More people need to see this I’m showing this to everyone I know

MASTERPIECE

Who knows why I want to put it on Halloween

I totally forgot this song, but recognize it again. It was in my cassette that had "Lily of The Valley", "Dear Friends", "Nevermore", "Brighton Rock", etc.

it’s always the weirdest songs that are the coolest this is my favorite song atm

Queen reached more creative genius in their first two albums than any other band in history.... Sorry!

And here's the piano, voice and choir score :
https://musescore.com/user/27933667/scores/5692612

I liked this song, then when I found out it's describing a painting I looked at the painting(and tried to find all the stuff he was describing)and now for some reason I find this song so much more interesting

when she delivers the master stroke and watches you crack a nut at the night's noon-time

2:36 did someone say "nevermore"?

Yeah, the piano play at the end part is the intro part of Nevermore.

0:52 can WE TALK ABOUT THIS PART

Beautiful,all of it

Perfeitinho

These are very confusing and weird lyrics but queen can even make the sentence YEETUS YEETUS YEET THAT FETUS sound good :3

Pure genius!!!

Legend has it this song is about a woman who jerks off her man.

what a powerful song, in love with this music

Amazing bass line

Love the Harpsichord!

He's a fairy feller
Ah ah the fairy folk have gathered
Round the new moon's 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

Plow man wagoner will' and types
Politician with senatorial pipe
He's a dilly dally oh
Pedagogue squinting wears a frown
And a satyr peers under lady's gown
He's a dirty fellow
What a dirty laddie-oh

Tatterdemalion and the junketer
There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter
He's my hero ah
Fairy dandy tickling the fancy
Of his lady friend
The nymph in yellow (can we see the master stroke)
What a queer fellow

Ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah ah
Soldier sailor tinker tailor plow boy
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 queer fellow
The ostler stares with hands on his knees
Come on mister feller
Crack it open of you please

This is a lyric video. You may not have noticed.

@Mary Pé Sansterre yeah but its more confortable to read lyrics like this

His songwriting ability was unreal

The like to dislike ratio says it all. for every 1 dislike there are 90 likes

One of my fav

There’s no way in hell I would ever be able to preform this song Live.

Bryan Cantrell i can’t even manage it in the shower.

00:05 The Freddie of The March Of The Black Queen :3

Thanks for the one like :D

It song is 'My Fairy King'-s brother, isn't it? :D

How is it even humanly possible to sing this good

this song is my religion

here we go... *write the title on my notebook* endless list of my favorite Queen song

a truly underrated song

This is my favorite song along with Seven Seas Of Rhye on the Queen ll album

The best song of the world!!

Listen to ogre battle before this and it will sound like they are one song.

I'm addicted to this song.

In 0:28 Ariana Grande, who is she? She could never.

My favorite Queen song, i love it too much.

Queen music is like poetic art....and the melodies are an orgy for the ears