The title is inspired by a 1902 monologue by Sholem Aleichem in Yiddish, Ven ikh bin Rothschild (If I were Rothschild), a reference to the wealth of the Rothschild family, although the content is quite different. Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum. The lyric is based in part on passages from Sholem Aleichem’s 1899 short story "The biddy biddy Bubble Bursts bum." Both stories appeared in English in the 1949 collection of stories Tevye's Yidle-diddle-didle-didle-daughters.