Up in a Balloon

DESCRIPTION: "One night I went up in a balloon, On a voyage of discovery, to visit the moon." The balloon goes out of control, hits city hall, and leaves the singer clinging to a steeple. He ends up among the stars -- and falls out of bed, and realizes it was a dream
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1869 (Dime-Song-Book #23)
KEYWORDS: dream humorous technology travel
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (2 citations):
New-Comic-Songster, p. 11, "Up in a Balloon" (1 text, 1 tune)
Dime-Song-Book #23, p. 7, "Up in a Balloon" (1 text)
Roud #4882
NOTES [54 words]: New-Comic-Songster prints both men's and women's versions of this (in the women's version, she is interested in a man who disappears in a balloon), but it appears that the handful of traditional collections are of the men's version, upon which the description is based.
Dime-Song-Book #23, also has the women's version. - RBW
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