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