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