It was! I learned it when I was little with the name "Dunderbeck's Machine" - this is inspired by that and early meat processing in the United States... But in a world with magical creatures!
Every time we show off the game, there is always like, one or two people that show up and know the song haha - awesome. Yeah, I chased the history of the song quite a bit while working on this to see what I could find - in the most vague terms possible, where are you from? (don't dox yourself!) It seems to be more popular in the Midwest USA.