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"Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron" is a traditional English folk song written in the 19th century about a housewife carrying out one part of her linen chores each day of the week. == In popular culture == 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''. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 At The Drop of Another Hat )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Dashing Away With A Smoothing Iron by Traditional )〕 In 1973 the tune was used by the English composer John Rutter for the fourth movement of his ''Suite for Strings'' under the title ''Dashing Away''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 John Rutter at Pytheas )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Choral legend John Rutter to lead St. Charles Singers )〕 In ''Downton Abbey'' season 3, episode 3, Carson sings this song to himself after finding out that Mrs. Hughes does not have cancer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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