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Song

The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke

Queen

Queen II, 1974, English

Lyrics

Pick up to six lines to make a card.

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 noontime
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 a junketer
There's a thief and a dragonfly trumpeter
He's my hero (Ahh-ahh!)
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 (Fairy feller)
Come on, Mr. Feller, crack it open if you please (Fairy feller)