This song, and others like it, always remind me of primary school days and singing in class with the New National Song Book while the teacher played the piano. Some others (as I recall) were:

Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill
The Minstrel Boy
The Ash Grove
Oh, No John
The British Grenadiers
The Lincolnshire Poacher

and many others. The Lincolnshire Poacher is a fascinating example of a song being carried by sailors to the Caribbean and being slowly transformed into Sonny Rollins' jazz composition "St. Thomas"!

The book, and those singing sessions on a Friday afternoon in a Lancashire primary school, are fond memories.