Misc Traditional – The Spinning Wheel (Guitar)

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[Verse]
D                                A
Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginning

A                                   D
Close by the window young Eileen is spinning

D                      G                 D
Bent o'er the fire her blind grandmother sitting

   G            D           A        D
Is crooning and moaning and drowsily knitting.
[Chorus]
D                            A
Merrily cheerily noiselessly whirring

A                                          D
Swings the wheel spins the wheel while her foot's stirring

D                         G       D
Sprightly and lightly and merrily ringing

G                D            A            D
Trills the sweet voice of the young maiden singing.
[Verse]
D                               A
Eileen, a chara, I hear someone tapping

A                                          D
'Tis the ivy dear mother against the glass flapping

D                     G        D
Eileen, I surely hear somebody sighing

         G            D           A            D
'Tis the sound mother dear of the autumn winds dying.
[Chorus]
D                            A
Merrily cheerily noiselessly whirring

A                                          D
Swings the wheel spins the wheel while her foot's stirring

D                         G       D
Sprightly and lightly and merrily ringing

G                D            A            D
Trills the sweet voice of the young maiden singing.
[Verse]
D                                            A
What's the noise that I hear at the window I wonder?

A                                             D
'Tis the little birds chirping the holly bush under

D                             G                 D
What makes you be shoving and moving your stool on?

    G           D             A            D
And singing all wrong the old song of the 'Coolin'?
[Chorus]
D                            A
Merrily cheerily noiselessly whirring

A                                          D
Swings the wheel spins the wheel while her foot's stirring

D                         G       D
Sprightly and lightly and merrily ringing

G                D            A            D
Trills the sweet voice of the young maiden singing.
[Verse]
D                                              A
There's a form at the casement the form of her true love

A                                                  D
And he whispers with face bent I'm waiting for you love

    D                           G            D
Get up on the stool through the lattice step lightly

          G           D               A              D
And we'll rove in the grove while the moon's shining brightly.
[Chorus]
D                            A
Merrily cheerily noiselessly whirring

A                                          D
Swings the wheel spins the wheel while her foot's stirring

D                         G       D
Sprightly and lightly and merrily ringing

G                D            A            D
Trills the sweet voice of the young maiden singing.
[Verse]
D                                             A
The maid shakes her head on her lips lays her fingers

      A                                     D
Steps up from the stool longs to go and yet lingers

  D                              G      D
A frightened glance turns to her drowsy grandmother

G                    D               A              D
Puts her foot on the stool spins the wheel with the other
[Chorus]
D                            A
Merrily cheerily noiselessly whirring

A                                          D
Swings the wheel spins the wheel while her foot's stirring

D                         G       D
Sprightly and lightly and merrily ringing

G                D            A            D
Trills the sweet voice of the young maiden singing.
[Verse]
D                                    A
Lazily, easily, now swings the wheel round

A                                        D
Slowly and lowly is heard now the reel's sound

D                          G             D
Noiseless and light to the lattice above her

    G                D            A           D
The maid steps, then leaps to the arms of her lover.