The song was written during Greens final months with the band, at a time when he was struggling with LSD and had withdrawn from other members of the band. Faced with the bands refusal to give away all monetary gains, Peter Green decided to leave Fleetwood Mac, but not before writing the haunting Green Manalishi, which seems to document his struggle to stop his descent into madness.[1] While there are several rumours about the meaning of the title Green Manalishi, one referencing a mysterious LSD drug called Green Manalishi associated with the drug scene of the 1960s and 1970s,[citation needed] Green has always maintained that the song is about money, as represented by the devil.[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.[2] He also said that he wrote the lyrics the following day, in Richmond Park. Supposedly, he was unable to record Robert Johnsons Hellhound on My Trail following the incident; having conflated Johnsons hellhound with the green dog-demon of his dream.[citation needed] This is supported by his discography, in which Greens sole post-Manalishi cover of Hellhound was sung by band mate Nigel Watson.
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