Mellow the moonlight to is beginning by the window young Eileen is spinning Bent o'er the fire her grand sitting is crooning and moaning and knitting.
cho: cheerily noisily whirring Swings the spins the wheel while the foot's stirring Sprightly and lightly and merrily Sounds the voice of the young maiden singing.
Eileen, a chara, I hear tapping 'Tis the ivy dear against the glass flapping Eileen, I hear somebody sighing 'Tis the sound mother of the autumn winds dying.
a form at the casement, the form of her true love And he whispers with face bent, I'm for you love Get up on the stool, through the step lightly And we'll rove in the while the moon's shining brightly.
cho: Merrily cheerily noisily Swings the wheel spins the while the foot's stirring and lightly and merrily ringing Sounds the voice of the young maiden singing.
The maid shakes her head, on her lays her fingers Steals up from the seat, longs to go and yet A glance turns to her drowsy grandmother Puts one on the stool spins the wheel with the other
Lazily, easily, now the wheel round Slowly and lowly is heard now the sound Noiseless and light to the lattice 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 wheel their spinning and moving The grove the young lovers by are roving.