"Oh Well" is a song by British rock band Fleetwood Mac, released in 1969 and composed by vocalist and lead guitarist Peter Green.

After Green's departure from Fleetwood Mac, the song was sung by various other members, including Bob Welch,[2] Dave Walker,[3] Lindsey Buckingham,[4] Billy Burnette,[5] and Mike Campbell.

[6] Peter Green wrote what would become part 2 of "Oh Well" on a Ramirez Spanish guitar, which he purchased after hearing the instrument on the radio.

[9][10] Green sings a brief verse with no musical accompaniment, before the riff begins again and breaks into a rock shuffle with a guitar solo that lasts 16 measures.

[10][11][12] The cowbell solo was an unplanned addition that Fleetwood played by accident, but Green liked the part and insisted on keeping it in the mix.

[13] In his 2014 memoir, Fleetwood recalled that he encountered difficulties nailing the cowbell part for live performances and worried that he would "never get it".

[14] Where the second part follows, there is a brief pause before Green's sombre, Spanish-style acoustic guitar and low electric guitar,[11] leading into further instrumental passages of cello and recorder, played by Green's then-girlfriend, Sandra Elsdon,[15] and piano, the latter played by Jeremy Spencer.

[16] During live performances with the original lineup, Spencer frequently played supplemental percussion during the song, often maracas.

[17] Instead of including "Oh Well" on the UK track listing of Then Play On, the label chose the song as the band's next single, which came as a surprise to the songwriter, Peter Green, who expected Kirwan's "When You Say" to receive that designation.

[22] The album edit of "Oh Well" joined the two sides of the single as one track, entitled "Oh Well" (lasting 8:56), so that the second part's beginning is heard twice.

[8] Oh Well (Part 1) Oh Well (Part 2) "Oh Well" has been covered by various other artists and groups, including Billy Gibbons, Deep Purple, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, 2Cellos, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Monks of Doom, Gordon Giltrap, Joe Jackson, The Rockets, Big Country, Tribe of Gypsies, Ratt, Tourniquet, McCoy, John Parr, Oh Well, Haim, Aerosmith, Darrell Mansfield, Zona B and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit,.

The beginning of the song from Live in Boston by Fleetwood Mac can be heard in the second season of the television show Fargo.