Sorry, Sophial, don't know the group, just want to ask if this song owes anything to the childrens' story, Rikki-Tikki-Tembo-(no-sa-rembo-chari-bari-ruchi-pip-peri-pembo)? Or, perhaps, is it the other way round?

In this version, the boy with the long name falls down a well and his rescue is complicated by the difficulty of relaying his predicament using the entire name. When his much-less-valued, and hence, short-named, younger brother falls in the same well, he is quickly saved, leaving the family, and, by extension, all of China (!) to elect conveniently short names ever after. Anybody else see the similarity?

Shula