- Source: Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron
"Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron" is an English folk song 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 Vaughan Williams catalogue is 1904, as collected in Somerset and arranged by Cecil Sharp. 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.
Lyrics
'Twas on a [ Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday ] morning
When I beheld my darling:
She looked so neat and charming
In every high degree;
She looked so neat and nimble, O,
[ A-washing | A-hanging | A-starching | A-ironing | A-folding | A-airing | A-wearing ] of her linen, O,
Refrain
Dashing away with the smoothing iron,
Dashing away with the smoothing iron,
She stole my heart away.
Adaptations
The musical comedy duo Flanders and Swann quoted the first 7/8 syllables of each verse, verbatim and notewise, at the beginning of each verse of The Gas Man Cometh, the first track on At The Drop of Another Hat (1963).
The tune was used by the English composer John Rutter for the fourth movement of his Suite for Strings (1973) under the title Dashing Away.
See also
"Monday's Child", a traditional English rhyme mentioning the days of the week
"Solomon Grundy", an English nursery rhyme mentioning the days of the week
References
External links
The lyrics with the musical notes to Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron
John Rutter's choral arrangement
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron
- Solomon Grundy (nursery rhyme)
- Flanders and Swann
- The Five Faces of Manfred Mann
- Vida Hope
- Gordon Jacob
- List of folk songs by Roud number
- Otto von Bismarck
- Battle of Hampton Roads
- Adventure Thru Inner Space
