Sweet Leaf

Yeah, pretty obviously about cannabis. Still, it's written well enough that you could almost just interpret it as a love song to a person, with "sweet leaf" just being a cute name. Regardless, it's definitely about cannabis.

I can't believe there is an arguement over what this song is about. Know-it-alls would like to believe that everything they read is true, totally disregarding the fact that maybe things were written in the booklet to mislead certain people intentionally? This is a love song for cannabis. Straight up. That and the one time I saw Black Sabbath live where ozzy didn't bail out there was a gigathemntic clock that came up on the screen behind that read "4:19" and right before they started 'sweet leaf', when it started it flipped to "4:20". That and fog machines. The messed up part is that this sounds like one of the deepest love songs in metal. It's so sweet lol.

"This is from a band that existed in the 70's and 80's, so Marijuana songs would be unheard of. Jimi Hendrix is the only exception."

Man I pray to god that was a sarcastic comment.

Yes, this song is about Marijuana- in fact, you hear Tony Iommi coughing at the beginning of it. He said this is his only (and best) vocal part in any song.

that cough is obvious enough. cigarette coughs don't echo.

The coughing intro of the song is actually Tony Iommi!

I'm pretty sure this song is about marijuana. Nobody can like cigarettes THAT much.

This song is about His love for Pot

you know what's funny? not only is this song about marijuana, it's TO marijuana. He actually says "I love you" to pot. That's pretty god damned funny.

This is amazing to me that for the past 8 1/2 years people have been saying the same thing about this song and how sabbra21 is an idiot. Well sabbra21 actually was pretty much right. They got the name from a pack of Irish Cigarettes that said "It's the sweet leaf." They thought that Sweet Leaf was a great description of marijuana and all 4 members collectively wrote this song.