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QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Nov 21, 2007 -> 10:51 PM)
The Green Manalishi - Fleetwood Mac

 

Green Acres Theme - Vic Mizzy :lolhitting I had to google the artist

 

 

Green acres is the place to be

Farm living is the life for me

Land spreading out,

so far and wide

Keep Manhattan,

just give me that countryside.

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QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 22, 2007 -> 09:07 AM)
BTW, wasn't that Judas Priest?

For INFO. Sake..... Quote from Songfacts.com

Songfacts: You can leave comments about the song at the bottom of the page.

This was the last song Fleetwood Mac recorded with Peter Green, who was the original leader of the band and wrote this song. He became obsessed with giving away his money and felt guilty about how much he made, and wanted to give it all to people who were less fortunate and starving around the world. He wanted his band members to do the same, which created tension in the band as they did not agree with his philosophy. (thanks, Stephen - Tucson, AZ)

Rumors have it that Green wrote this while struggling with his LSD usage, and was referencing a mysterious LSD drug called Green Manalishi.

Judas Priest covered this on their Hell Bent for Leather album 10 years later in 1979. (thanks, Mike - Mountlake Terrace, WA, for above 2)

This was based upon a recurrent dream Peter Green had in which he woke up unable to move while messages about money formed in his brain. Green recalls: "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." More recently he admitted, "It took me two years to recover from that song. When I listened to it afterwards there was so much power there... it exhausted me." (taken from an article by Neil Slaven on Fleetwood Mac

 

 

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QUOTE(The Critic @ Nov 22, 2007 -> 09:20 AM)
Originally Fleetwood Mac (before Nicks/Buckingham), covered by Priest.

 

This River Is Wild - The Killers

Wild Thing - Troggs

 

Speaking of Fleetwood Mac originals, Sentimental Lady is a far better tune by Fleetwood Mac than when Bob Welch essentially covered himself.

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