where did the song mares eat oats come from
Mairzy Doats Milton Drake, one of the writers, said the song had been based on an English nursery rhyme. According to this story, Drake's four-year-old daughter came home singing, "Cowzy tweet and sowzy tweet and liddle sharksy doisters."[4] (Cows eat wheat and sows eat wheat and little sharks eat oysters.)
Goodbye Horses According to its writer, "the song is about transcendence over those who see the world as only earthly and finite. The horses represent the five senses discussed in the Bhagavad Gita and the ability to lift oneâ€™s perception above these physical limitations and to see beyond this limited Earthly perspective."[1]