I've been trying to find that song for years. Handicapped, rather, by the fact that the person I half-learnt it from is dead, used a different title (The First Time) and first line (Going out with the Fleet for the first time, I think it was), and never told me who wrote it! Many thanks for this.

I seem to recall another verse, perhaps, ending Or remember your own mother's face. Does that ring any bells?