Mellow the to shine is beginning by the window young Eileen is spinning Bent the fire her grand grandmother sitting is and moaning and drowsily knitting.
cho: cheerily noisily whirring Swings the wheel spins the wheel while the foot's Sprightly and and merrily ringing Sounds the voice of the young maiden singing.
Eileen, a chara, I someone tapping the ivy dear mother against the glass flapping Eileen, I surely somebody sighing 'Tis the sound mother of the autumn winds dying.
a form at the casement, the form of her true love And he whispers face 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 whirring Swings the wheel spins the wheel while the stirring Sprightly and lightly and merrily Sounds the 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 foot on the stool 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 spinning and moving The grove the young lovers by are roving.