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"A stir at the end of the field told him one of the Nym was approaching. The great form, head and shoulders and chest taller than any Ogier, stepped out onto the seeded ground, and Coumin did not have to see to know he left footprints filled with sprouting things. It was Someshta, surrounded by clouds of butterflies, white and yellow and blue...Each field would have its Nym, now...the Nym were older than anyone. Some said the Nym never died, not so long as plants grew..." -- TSR: 26, 432, The Dedicated, 303
Many years later, after the breaking, we see him again, this time with the characteristic fissure in his face. He is being set to the task of guarding the Eye of the World, the Horn, the dragon banner and one of the seals. TSR: 26, 428, The Dedicated, 300-1
"The Ogier began it, as was fitting, standing to sing, great bass rumbles like the earth singing. The Aiel rose, men's voices lifting in their own song, even the deepest at a higher pitch than the Ogier's. Yet the songs braided together, and Someshta took those threads and wove them into his dance...The song caught him up, and he almost felt that it was himself, not the sounds he made that Someshta wove into the soil and around the seeds." -- TSR: 26, 432, The Dedicated, 303
The Song is not to be confused with the Ogier Tree-Songs. The Ogier songs may be the Ogier part of the growing ceremony described above, or they may be something similar, but different in purpose.
For the Tinkers, "The Song" has become more than just the human part of the AoL growing ceremony. The Tinkers' legendary song is something that will bring back the peaceful lifestyle known by the Dashain Aiel during the Age of Legends.
TSR: 26, ?, ?, 296 REF?:
"The Tuatha'an began
their search looking for a safe haven where they could return to a way
of life in which Aiel singing together worked wonders. That eventually
got distorted into a life of perpetual travel searching for "The
Song", as if there were just one, and it was something a single
traveler could know." -- Contributed by: Tari Petit
So, when we say "will the Tinkers find the Song?" we really mean, "Will the Tinkers rediscover the AoL growing ceremony, plus the talent of the Voice, and be able to recreate the peaceful existence of their ancestors, the Da'shain Aiel?"
Further Evidence that Rand will find the song (TEotW: prologue, xv, Dragonmount, xv)):
"ages past and will be in ages to come. Let the Prince of the Morning
sing to the land that green things will grow and the valleys give
forth lambs."
It is entirely possible that the Song is lost forever (or at least until the Age of Legends comes around again).
Aaron Bergman explains:
"In the breaking that followed the sealing of the bore, the Da'Shain were scattered. Some ended up at Rhuidean with the caravans; Some broke off, eventually becoming the Tinkers. Anyways, during those times when mountains moved around when they were bored and food and water were scarce, the memory of the singing survived. This grew to become linked with the memory of the peace of the Age of Legends. This easily progressed to the idea that if they could discover this ephemeral "song," the Age of Legends would come anew.
"I think one of the themes buried in these novels is that the past is dead. You can't hope to regain the past. Rand can't go back to the Two Rivers and become a shepherd. The Age of Legends is dead, it will not return for a very long time; certainly not in the next (fourth) Age. The Tuatha'an are seeking to regain the past. The "song" is a remnant of the past. Thus, the song will not be found." There is no Song that will recreate the Age of Legends, for it is past.
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