The writer and immensely popular children's poet, Korney Chukovsky, later wrote that the inspiration for the song had been the four lines of the refrain, which were composed in 1928 by the four-year-old boy Kostya Barannikov.
Spisovateľ a nesmierne populárny detský básnik, Kornej Čukovskij, neskôr napísal, že inšpiráciou k piesni boli štyri riadky refrénu, ktoré v roku 1928 napísal 4-ročný chlapec Kosťa Barannikov.