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Spinning Wheel - 1 - Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginning Close by the window young Eileen is spinning Bent o'er the fire her blind grandmother sitting Is crooning and moaning and drowsily knitting Refrain Merrily, cheerily, noisily, whirring Swings the wheel, spins the wheel while the foot's stirring Sprightly and lightly and merrily ringing Sounds the sweet voice of the young maiden singing - 2 - Eileen, yochorra, I hear someone tapping 'Tis the ivy, dear mother, against the glass flapping Eileen, I surely hear somebody sighing 'Tis the sound, mother dear of the autumn winds dying - 3 - (Non chanté ici) What's the noise that I hear at the window I wonder? 'Tis the little birds chirping on holly-bushy under What makes you be shoving and moving your stool on? And singing all wrong the old song of the "Coolin" Songtexte - 4 - There's a form at the casement the form of her true love And he whispers with face bent I'm waiting for you love Get up on the stool, through the lattice step lightly And we'll rove in the grove while the moon's shining brightly - 5 - The maid shakes her head, on her lips lays her fingers Steals up from the seat, longs to go, and yet lingers A frightened glance turns to her drowsy grandmother With one foot on the stool spins the wheel with the other Dernier refrain Lazily, easily swings now the wheel round Slowly and lowly is heard now the reel sound Noiseless and light to the lattice above her The maid steps, then leaps to the arms of her lover Slower and slower and slower the wheel swings Lower and lower and lower the reel rings E'er the reel and the wheel stop their spinning and moving Through the grove the young lovers by moonlight are roving. Aus Songtexte Mania