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