Mellow the moonlight to shine is Close by the young Eileen is spinning Bent o'er the fire her grandmother sitting is crooning and moaning and knitting.
cho: cheerily noisily whirring the wheel spins the wheel while the foot's stirring Sprightly and lightly and ringing Sounds the sweet voice of the maiden singing.
Eileen, a chara, I hear tapping the ivy dear mother against the glass flapping Eileen, I surely hear sighing 'Tis the mother dear of the autumn winds dying.
There's a form at the casement, the 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 we'll rove in the grove while the shining brightly.
cho: Merrily cheerily whirring Swings the wheel the wheel while the foot's stirring Sprightly and lightly and ringing Sounds the sweet voice of the young singing.
The shakes her head, on her lips lays her fingers up from the seat, longs to go and yet lingers A frightened turns to her drowsy grandmother Puts one foot on the stool the wheel with the other
Lazily, easily, now the wheel round Slowly and is heard now the reel's sound Noiseless and light to the lattice her The maid steps, then to the arms of her lover.
Slower and slower, and slower the swings and lower, and lower the reel rings there the reel and the wheel stop spinning and moving The grove the young by moonlight are roving.