Mellow the moonlight to is beginning Close by the young Eileen is spinning Bent o'er the fire her grand sitting is crooning and moaning and knitting.
cho: cheerily noisily whirring Swings the wheel the wheel while the foot's stirring Sprightly and and merrily ringing Sounds the voice of the young maiden singing.
Eileen, a chara, I someone tapping 'Tis the ivy dear mother the glass flapping Eileen, I surely hear sighing 'Tis the sound mother dear of the 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 lattice step And we'll rove in the grove while the moon's brightly.
cho: Merrily cheerily noisily Swings the wheel spins the while the foot's stirring Sprightly and lightly and merrily 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 turns to her drowsy grandmother Puts one on the stool spins the wheel with the other
Lazily, easily, swings now the wheel Slowly and lowly is heard now the sound and light to the lattice above her The steps, then leaps to the arms of her lover.
Slower and slower, and the wheel swings and lower, and lower the reel rings there the reel and the stop their spinning and moving The grove the lovers by moonlight are roving.