Songfacts®:

• This song is a parody of Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues." The song is done completely in palindromes, for instance: "Madam I'm Adam." >>

  Suggestion credit:
  Ryan - Ottawa, Canada
• Yankovic wrote this in 2002, a year that's also a palindrome, and it got him thinking about the topic. He told Lily Hirsch, author of Weird Al: Seriously, that he thought, "Well, I wonder if I could write a song completely out of palindromes?
  
  So I started putting the rhymes together and putting the verses together and basically making a poem out of these palindromes. And I looked at them and I thought, 'Well, this … this is really just random jumble, but it looks like it should mean something.'"
  
  That's when he realized it was all rather Dylanesque: "I've written a Bob Dylan song."
• When Hirsch asked Yankovic about his approach to composition, he used "Bob" as an example, saying, "I think mostly I come up with the lyrics first and then figure out what kind of genre to apply it. Or sometimes I come up with a concept and I know what kind of genre I'm writing. But I don't usually write the music first."
• Poodle Hat, Yankovic's 11th studio album, was released four years after his previous album, Running With Scissors. He was quite busy in the interim: He got married, bought a house, and welcomed a daughter, Nina.
• Poodle Hat won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in 2004 - Yankovic's first Grammy win since "Fat" was named Best Concept Music Video in 1989.
  
  From 1993 to 2003, his musical comedy albums weren't eligible for consideration for Best Comedy Album because the category was changed to Best Spoken Word Comedy. In 2004, it reverted to Best Comedy Album and opened the door for Yankovic's nomination and subsequent win.