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