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