Green always maintained that the song is about money, as represented by the devil.
Green wrote the song after experiencing drug-induced dreams in which he was visited by a green dog which barked at him from the afterlife. 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.”
These dreams were recurring, with Green typically waking up feeling unable to move while messages about money formed in his brain. He went deeper into these experiences in a 1996 interview with Mojo, reiterating that the song is about the evils of money and that The Green Manalishi was the devil manifested as a wad of cash. He said, “I had a dream where I woke up and I couldn’t move, literally immobile on the bed. I had to fight to get back into my body. I had this message that came to me while I was like this, saying that I was separate from people like shop assistants, and I saw a picture of a female shop assistant and a wad of pound notes, and there was this other message saying, ‘You’re not what you used to be. You think you’re better than them. You used to be an everyday person like a shop assistant, just a regular working person.’ I had been separated from it because I had too much money. So I thought, How can I change that?”
One early morning, Green woke up from one of his nightmares with a horribly uneasy feeling. The room was dark, and he got up and immediately started writing the song. He said, “When I woke up I found I was writing this song. Next day I went out to the park and the words started coming. The Green Manalishi is the wad of notes, the devil is green and he was after me. Fear, inspiration is what it was, but it was that tribal ancient Hebrew thing I was going for. Ancient music.”The Story Behind the Song: "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" by Fleetwood Mac | 22 September 2021
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Street in El Paso, Texas, 1888
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Dont know about all that but Detroit’s own Rockets did a 1000 times more better version of Oh Well... Nothing can beat the sync between the Keys and Lead guitar during the solo!!
https://youtu.be/EzazgG-y7uM?list=RDEzazgG-y7uM
