Delia Murphy - The Spinning Wheel (1950) Enjoy, as a number of you requested this song today. Lyrics Mellow the moonlight to shine is beginning Close by the window young Eileen is spinning Bent o'er the fire her grand grandmother sitting Is crooning and moaning and drowsily knitting. Cho: 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. Eileen, a chara, I hear