Mellow the moonlight to shine is by the window young Eileen is spinning Bent o'er the her grand grandmother sitting is and moaning and drowsily knitting.
cho: Merrily cheerily whirring Swings the wheel spins the wheel the foot's stirring Sprightly and lightly and merrily 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 hear 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 face bent, I'm waiting for you love Get up on the stool, the lattice step lightly And we'll rove in the grove the moon's shining brightly.
cho: cheerily noisily whirring Swings the wheel spins the wheel the foot's stirring and lightly and merrily ringing Sounds the sweet voice of the maiden singing.
The maid shakes her head, on her lips lays her Steals up from the seat, to go and yet lingers A frightened glance turns to her drowsy Puts one foot on the 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 lattice her The maid steps, leaps to the arms of her lover.
and slower, and slower the wheel swings Lower and lower, and the reel rings there the reel and the wheel stop spinning and moving The the young lovers by moonlight are roving.