AS is often the case on these threads, I find the comments more interesting than the subject
1)" Nothing to do with folk music" Not so. My friend Richard Chase tracked down that "Go tell Aunt (Abby, Nancy, Rhody et al") came from an opera by Rousseau, who may have based it on a Sicilian folk tune.
2)"madder than a boiled owl" (that the local PBS station was not broadcasting Wagner). The last verse of "The State of Arkansas"has the line, "Got a quart of whiskey my misery to thaw, I got as drunk as a biled owl, when I left Arkansas". I sang this song for decades before I found out that "biled" was actually how midwesterners pronounced "boiled".
3) "Schubert was a paedophile". Given the spelling, it seems likely that the poster knows that this word is pronounced with a long e, just like "pediatric" and "orthopedic." This fact has escaped every newsman in the US.
4) "I don't listen to Wagner, because he was anti-Semitic" At least Wagner stole from Mendelssohn, and Hitler considered Mendelssohn a Jew,even though Mendelssohn converted to Christianity. Also Issac Watts was anti-Semitic {consider his Cradle Hymn for example)