[2] The song is built around Charles Perrault's fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood", adapted by ending before the grandmother makes her entrance.

The effect, whether intentional or incidental, is to strip away the fairy tale's metaphorical device and present the relationship between the two characters without literary pretense.

The song begins with a howl, and a spoken recitation that goes: "Who's that I see walkin' in these woods?/Why it's Little Red Riding Hood."

The song appeared in the TV show Grimm, where it was played at the beginning of the season 3 episode "Red Menace" that aired in 2014.

It also appears just after the opening titles of the episode of the British soap opera Coronation Street that aired on the ITV network on October 18, 2021.