"Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron" is a traditional English folk song about a man admiring his girlfriend as she goes through daily stages of washing and ironing clothes. It is classified as Round number 869. The earliest date in the Vaughan Williams catalogue is 1904, noted by Cecil Sharp. A later entry, for 1908 gives the source as Jane Gulliford from Somerset. The fresnostate university gives a slightly different title "Driving Away at the Smoothing Iron" with a date of 1909.