Yup. I was talking about how they taught it to us, in school. It actually had an emotional place in my heart. For some reason, I found the story compelling.
I found it sad, because he dies at the end to prove he could beat the machine once, but the machine could keep producing its lesser output every day after his death. He gave it all for a Pyrrhic victory.
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.