Queen – The Fairy Fellers Master-Stroke (Guitar)

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Chords

[Intro]
| Em | Em | D | D |
(He's a fairy feller)
| G C G | Am | [Verse]
    Am
The fairy folk have gathered

          Am
round the new-moon shine

   Am
To see the feller crack a nut at

B
night's noon-time

             Em
To swing his axe he swears,

      D
as it climbs he dares

     C
To deliver

    Am     B
The Master-Stroke
| Em | Em | [Chorus]
C           G        Am
Ploughman, "Waggoner Will", and types

    C      G        Am
Politician with senatorial pipe -

             Dm       Am
he's a dilly-dally-o

F
Pedagogue squinting, wears a frown

      F     C           Dm
And a satyr peers under lady's

              Am
gown, a dirty fellow

             Dm     F G
What a dirty laddio
[Chorus]
C         G            Am
Tatterdemalion and a junketer

          C           G         Am
There's a thief and a dragonfly

                  Dm       Am
trumpeter he's my hero (a- ah)

F
Fairy dandy tickling the

Bb    F      C    Dm
fancy of his lady friend

             Am
The nymph in yellow (can we see the master stroke)

              Dm     F G
What a quaere fellow
[Instumental] | Am | Am | Bbm | Bbm | | D A | D A | D A | D C | | B | [Verse]
Am
Soldier, sailor, tinker, tailor, ploughboy

B
Waiting to hear the sound

        Em                D
And the arch-magician presides

          C       Am B
He is the leader
| Em | [Chorus]
  C        G       Am
Oberon and Titania watched by a harridan

C          G                   Am
Mab is the queen and there's a good apothecary-man

Dm
Come to say hello

F
Fairy dandy tickling the

Bb    F      C    Dm
fancy of his lady friend

             Am
The nymph in yellow

              Dm     F G
What a quaere fellow
[Outro]
    C      G           Am
The ostler stares with hands on his knees

     C      G
Come on Mr. Feller,

         Am
crack it open of you please
| Dm | Bb | F |