the story goes that this song was the reproduction of what the boaters heard through the bottom of their leather boats. And later on somebody said "That sounds like humpback whales, maybe that's what they heard" . Originally thought to be a song of the Fairies.

at quarter speed it does sound like whale song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i3QEkc4hTw
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