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