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Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron

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335: 41:. A later entry for 1908 gives the source as Jane Gulliford from Somerset. The Fresno State University gives a slightly different title, "Driving Away at the Smoothing Iron", with a date of 1909. 144: 29:
about a man admiring the woman he loves as she goes through daily stages of washing and ironing clothes. It is classified as Roud number 869. The earliest date in the
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quoted the first 7/8 syllables of each verse, verbatim and notewise, at the beginning of each verse of
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The lyrics with the musical notes to Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron
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English
folk song
Vaughan Williams
Somerset
Cecil Sharp
Flanders and Swann
John Rutter
Monday's Child
Solomon Grundy
"Dashing Away With the Smoothing Iron"
"Driving Away at the Smoothing Iron"
A Selection of Collected Folk Songs
"At The Drop of Another Hat"
the original
"Dashing Away With A Smoothing Iron by Traditional"
"John Rutter at Pytheas"
"Choral legend John Rutter to lead St. Charles Singers"
The lyrics with the musical notes to Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron
John Rutter's choral arrangement
folk song
stub
expanding it
v
t
e
Categories
English folk songs
19th-century songs
Songwriter unknown
Year of song unknown

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