Mellow the moonlight to is beginning Close by the window Eileen is spinning o'er the fire her grand grandmother sitting is crooning and moaning and knitting.
cho: Merrily cheerily noisily Swings the spins the wheel while the foot's stirring and lightly and merrily ringing Sounds the sweet voice of the young singing.
Eileen, a chara, I hear someone 'Tis the ivy dear against the glass flapping Eileen, I hear somebody sighing 'Tis the sound mother of the autumn winds 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 in the grove while the moon's shining brightly.
cho: Merrily noisily whirring Swings the wheel spins the wheel while the foot's Sprightly and lightly and merrily Sounds the sweet voice of the maiden singing.
The maid her head, on her lips lays her fingers 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 round Slowly and lowly is heard now the sound Noiseless and to the lattice above her The maid steps, 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 stop their and moving The the young lovers by moonlight are roving.