Bati Bato is inspired by a traditional one-line nursery rhyme in Eastern Surit, commonly sung in Assyrian villages across Northern Mesopotamia—now present-day Northeast Iraq, Khabur Syria, and Southeast Turkey. Song was fully written and composed by the well-known Poet Admon Gabrial. The first line of the song "Bati Bato makhzeli beta d be khali" used to be sung when a kid catches a ladybug, and have it walk on the kid's hand, until it climbs up to the tip of the finger and then flies away.