According to whoever posted this recording at The Internet Archive, the title of the song is MY LOVELY SHANNON SHORE. However, I haven't found any confirmation of this.

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MY LOVELY SHANNON SHORE
As sung by The McNulty Family

Sit down, my gentle fair maid, before I bid adieu,
For a little while in pleasure I would like to spend with you.
It grieves my heart from you to part, ah, but here I cannot stay,
For I must go a-roaming to reach the USA.

Farewell, my friends and parents, and the girl that I do adore.
I will think of her, of my own true love, when I'm on a foreign shore.
I will think about my own true love who once was so dear to me,
And in course of time I might come back from that lovely Tennessee.

Go down to Queenstown Harbour; it will grieve your heart to see
The boys and the girls of Ireland and the thousands going away,
Going from the land that gave them birth, saying adieu to us once more,
But in course of time they might come back to that lovely Shannon shore.