Mellow the moonlight to shine is Close by the window Eileen is spinning Bent the fire her grand grandmother sitting is crooning and and drowsily knitting.
cho: Merrily cheerily whirring Swings the spins the wheel while the foot's stirring Sprightly and lightly and ringing Sounds the sweet voice of the young singing.
Eileen, a chara, I hear someone the ivy dear mother against the glass flapping Eileen, I surely somebody sighing 'Tis the mother dear 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 lattice step And rove in the grove while the moon's shining brightly.
cho: Merrily noisily whirring Swings the wheel spins the wheel the foot's stirring Sprightly and lightly and ringing Sounds the voice of the young maiden singing.
The maid shakes her head, on her lips her fingers Steals up from the seat, longs to go and yet A frightened glance turns to her grandmother Puts one on the stool spins 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 above her The maid steps, then to the arms of her lover.
Slower and slower, and the wheel swings Lower and lower, and lower the rings there the and the wheel stop their spinning and moving The grove the young lovers by are roving.