Horse Latitudes is a song from the Doors, circa early 70s. I was an early teen then, but my older brother was starting college and took a liking to the doors. So naturally, I did also.
Horse Latitudes was more of a Jim Morrison chant, and it always seemed to me to have some deep hidden meaning. As it turns out, it was probably some drug-induced babble on Morrison’s part.
Curious; On the rebound from a collapsed marriage at that time I was dating a girl who was crazy about the JM and the doors... no memory of that song at all. I picked up the term back in the 50's from a book by a comedy writer, H. Allen Smith: Lost in the Horse Latitudes. I didn't take the term as more than serendipity until a few years ago; looked it up and by golly I found it in Wikipedia.
Now you come along and tell me it was a song with a popular group from my middle years. Yikes! Where do the years go? đź‘´
***it was probably some drug-induced babble on Morrison’s part***
I (we) were extricating ourselves from 'nam at that time and drugs were everywhere... Alice's Restaurant and all that. Somehow a lot of that passed me by - or I passed it by. Typical rebound: the girl left me for someone else and I got stuck in the establishment: network TV news, NYC. No flowers in my hair, no beard, no drugs. sigh
I wouldn’t call Horse Latitudes a chant, there is no musical content in the track - with some bkgd sound effects like wind and others alluding to noise akin to a ship /storm at sea its Jim reciting a poem he wrote and its not babble at all.