"Two Little Boys" was a title of an episode of "The Brittas Empire", the song is referenced during the episode and its tune is played towards the end of the episode.The song would appear to have its origins in the fiction of the Victorian children's writer Juliana Horatia Ewing, whose book "Jackanapes" was a story about the eponymous hero and his friend Tom, who having ridden wooden horses as two little boys end up together on a battlefield.