Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - The Green Manalishi

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[shenmue]

1. What is a manalishi?

[BootinUp]

2. Might be the thing in Peters head that helped

Him write the song. I’ll let you know.

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3. Here we are:

The song was written during Green's final months with the band, at a time when he was struggling with LSD and had withdrawn from other members of the band. While there are several theories about the meaning of the title "Green Manalishi", Green has always maintained that the song is about money, as represented by the devil.[1] Green was reportedly angered by the other band members' refusal to give away their financial gains.[2]

Green has explained that he wrote the song after experiencing a drug-induced dream, in which he was visited by a green dog which barked at him. He understood that the dog represented money. "It scared me because I knew the dog had been dead a long time. It was a stray and I was looking after it. But I was dead and had to fight to get back into my body, which I eventually did. When I woke up, the room was really black and I found myself writing the song."[1] He also said that he wrote the lyrics the following day, in Richmond Park. Supposedly, he was unable to record Robert Johnson's 'Hellhound on My Trail' following the incident; having conflated Johnson's hellhound with the green dog-demon of his dream.[citation needed] This is supported by his discography, in which Green's sole post-Manalishi cover of 'Hellhound' was sung by bandmate Nigel Watson.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Manalishi_(With_the_Two_Prong_Crown)

[shenmue]

5. Thanks

[ProfessorGAC]

4. Cool, But

After the Judas Priest cover leaves me kind of cold
Great tune though