Tonart: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
Close by the window young
Bent o'er the fire her grand
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grandmother sitting
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Is crooning and moaning and
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drowsily knitting.
Verse 2
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cho: Merrily cheerily noisily whirring
Swings the wheel spins the wheel
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while the foot's stirring
Sprightly and lightly and
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merrily ringing
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Sounds the sweet voice of the
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Verse 3
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Eileen, a chara, I hear someone tapping
'Tis the ivy dear mother against
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Eileen, I surely hear somebody sighing
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'Tis the sound mother dear of the
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autumn winds dying.
Verse 4
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There's a form at the casement,
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the form of her true love
And he whispers with face bent,
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I'm waiting for you love
Get up on the stool,
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through the lattice step lightly
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And we'll rove in the grove while
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the moon's shining brightly.
Verse 5
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cho: Merrily cheerily noisily whirring
Swings the wheel spins the wheel
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while the foot's stirring
Sprightly and lightly and
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merrily ringing
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D
Sounds the sweet voice of the young
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Verse 6
The maid shakes her head,
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on her lips lays her fingers
Steals up from the seat,
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longs to go and yet lingers
A frightened glance turns to her
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drowsy grandmother
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Puts one foot on the stool spins
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the wheel with the other
Verse 7
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swings now the wheel round
Slowly and lowly is heard now
Noiseless and light to the
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lattice above her
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then leaps to the arms of her lover.
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Verse 8
Slower and slower,
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and slower the wheel swings
Lower and lower,
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and lower the reel rings
There the reel and the wheel stop
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their spinning and moving
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The grove the young lovers
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by moonlight are roving.
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