There's no shared culture anymore around those things.
The majority of people don't listen to anything outside the hits of the year, and for younger people there are no community events, there's no shared platform with any variety (radio is dead, streaming plays either popular hits or your own echo-bubble), schools doesn't teach them (they're more likely to teach some song of the latest shit pop celebrity), and there are in general no mainstream institutions that keep these alive.
But before our current 60-seconds-memory-span such folk songs were part of a canon known and loved for well over a century.
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I suspect it may not be taught, anymore, though.
I seem to encounter cultural milestones, that are no longer there, every day.
There's no shared culture anymore around those things.
The majority of people don't listen to anything outside the hits of the year, and for younger people there are no community events, there's no shared platform with any variety (radio is dead, streaming plays either popular hits or your own echo-bubble), schools doesn't teach them (they're more likely to teach some song of the latest shit pop celebrity), and there are in general no mainstream institutions that keep these alive.
But before our current 60-seconds-memory-span such folk songs were part of a canon known and loved for well over a century.
I learned it in elementary school in the late 90s