"A Winter's Tale" is a song by Queen, from the album Made in Heaven, released in 1995 after Freddie Mercury's death in 1991.

It was written after the Innuendo sessions, inspired as Mercury was staring out the windows of various places in Montreux.

Mercury wrote and composed the song, and also performed the vocals and keyboards (although the track is credited to Queen).

[3] In the 1995 documentary Queen: Champions of the World, it was stated that this was, if not the first, then an extremely rare style of recording for Mercury, as it was all performed in one take live in the studio.

[3] British magazine Music Week gave "A Winter's Tale" three out of five, adding, "This is more ballsy and uplifting than the slightly corny Heaven For Everyone, but now the album is out, it may struggle to match its predecessor's number two success.