The Spinning Wheel chords by [traditional]

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Verse 1
C 
G 
C 
 (C major)  (G major)  (C major) Mellow the moonlight
to shine is beginning
G 
Close  (G major) by the window young
Eileen is spinning
C 
Bent  (C major) o 'er the fire her blind
F 
C 
 (F major) grandmother  (C major) sitting
G 
 (G major) Is crooning and mourning
C 
and drowsily  (C major) knitting
I lean, a -currin',
I hear someone tappin'
G 
Tis the  (G major) ivy, mother,
against the glass flappin'
C 
F 
C 
Ily,  (C major) I surely hear some (F major) body  (C major) sighin'
G 
Tis  (G major) the song, mother dear,
C 
G 
C 
of the autumn winds dy (C major) in'  (G major)  (C major) 
Merrily, cheerily, noiselessly we ring,
G 
 (G major) Swings the wheel, spins the wheel,
while the foot stirring,
C 
F 
 (C major) Sprightly and brightly and  (F major) airily ringing,
C 
G 
 (C major) Three  (G major) is the sweet voice
C 
of the young maiden  (C major) singing.
There's a farm at the casement,
the farm of her true love,
G 
And he  (G major) whispers with face bent,
I'm waiting for you, love.
C 
 (C major) Get up on the stool,
F 
through the lattice  (F major) step lightly,
C 
G 
 (C major) We'll  (G major) rove in the grove
while the moon's shining brightly
C 
 (C major) The maid shakes her head
and her lip lays her fingers
G 
 (G major) Steals up from the seat,
longs to go and yet lingers
C 
 (C major) A frightened glance turns
F 
 (F major) on her drowsy grandmother
C 
G 
 (C major) Puts  (G major) one foot on the stool,
C 
G 
spins the wheel with  (C major) the other  (G major) 
C 
 (C major) Lazily, easily swings now
the wheel round,
G 
 (G major) Slowly and lowly is heard
now the real sound,
C 
 (C major) Noiseless and light to the
F 
C 
 (F major) lattice  above  (C major) her,
G 
The  (G major) maid creeps then leaps
C 
to the arms of her  (C major) lover.
Slower and slower and slower the wheel swings,
G 
 (G major) Lower and lower and
lower the reel rings,
C 
 (C major) Ere the reel and the wheel
F 
C 
stopped their  (F major) ringing and  (C major) moving
G 
Through the  (G major) grove the young lovers
C 
by moonlight are rov (C major) ing. you