Mellow the moonlight to shine is Close by the window young Eileen is Bent o'er the her grand grandmother sitting is crooning and moaning and knitting.
cho: Merrily noisily whirring Swings the wheel the wheel while the foot's stirring Sprightly and and merrily ringing the sweet voice of the young maiden singing.
Eileen, a chara, I hear tapping 'Tis the ivy dear mother the glass flapping Eileen, I surely hear sighing 'Tis the sound mother dear of the winds dying.
There's a form at the casement, the form of her true And he whispers with bent, I'm waiting for you love Get up on the stool, through the step lightly And rove in the grove while the moon's shining brightly.
cho: Merrily cheerily noisily Swings the wheel the wheel while the foot's stirring Sprightly and and merrily ringing the sweet voice of the young maiden singing.
The shakes her head, on her lips lays her fingers Steals up from the seat, to go and yet lingers A frightened turns to her drowsy grandmother Puts one foot on the stool spins the wheel the other
Lazily, easily, swings now the round and lowly is heard now the reel's sound Noiseless and light to the lattice her The maid steps, leaps to the arms of her lover.
Slower and slower, and slower the swings Lower and lower, and the reel rings there the and the wheel stop their spinning and moving The grove the young by moonlight are roving.