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.)
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Margaret Wolfe Hungerford Molly Bawn contains Hungerford's most famous idiom:
Ramble On The song's lyrics were influenced by The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.[5] The opening line ("Leaves are falling all around") could be a paraphrase of the opening line of Tolkien's poem "Namárië".