Chords for Delia Murphy - The Spinning Wheel

[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginning.
_ _ [G] Close by the window young Eileen is spinning. _
[C] _ Faint o'er the fire her [F] blind [C] grandmother sitting
[G] is crooning and mourning and _ [C] drowsily knitting.
_ Eileen, a-currin', I hear someone tapping.
Tis [G] the ivy, dear mother, _ against the glass flapping.
_ [C] _ Aily, I surely [F] hear somebody [C] _ sighing.
[G] Tis the song, mother _ dear, of the autumn [C] winds dying.
[G] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ Merrily, _ cheerily, _ noiselessly we ring.
[G] _
Swings the wheel, spins the wheel, wipes the foot stirring.
_ [C] _ Sprightly and brightly [F] and _ [C] airily ringing _
[G] thrills the sweet voice of the young maiden [C] singing. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ There's a farm at the casement, the farm of her true love,
[G] and she whispers with face bent, I'm waiting for you, love.
[C] Get up on the stool, through [F] the lattice [C] step lightly.
[G] We'll row in the grove while the moon's [C] shining brightly.
_ The maid shakes her head and her lip lays her fingers.
_ [G] Steals up from the seat, longs to go and yet lingers.
[C] A frightened glance turns [F] her _ drowsy [C] grandmother,
_ [G] puts one foot on the stool, spins the wheel [C] with the _ other.
[G] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ Lazily, _ easily swings now the wheel round.
[G] _ Slowly and lowly is heard now the real [C] sound.
_ Noiseless and light [F] to the lattice _ [C] above her,
[G] the maid creeps and leaps to the arms of [C] her lover.
_ _ Snore, _ _ snore, _ _ snore, the wheel swings,
[G] _ _ lore, lore,
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] ere the reel and the wheel
stopped [F] their ringing [C] and moving.
[G] Through the grove the young _ lovers by moonlight [C] are roving. _