Up in a Balloon (I)

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: G. W. Hunt (source: FolkSongAndMusicHall)
EARLIEST DATE: 1869 (Dime-Song-Book #23)
KEYWORDS: dream humorous technology travel
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (8 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)
Chapman-Sisters-Songster, pp. 56-57, "Up in a Balloon" (1 text, 1 tune)
Lydia-Thompson-Songster, pp. 4-5, "Up in a Balloon" (1 text, 1 tune)
OwenFawcetts-Paul-Pry-Songster, pp. 51-52, "Up in a Balloon" (1 text)
Up-In-a-Balloon-Songster, pp. 8-9, "Up in a Balloon" (1 text, 1 tune)
Clowns-Shoo-Fly-Songster, pp. 40-41, "Up in a Balloon" (1 text, 1 tune)
FolkSongAndMusicHall, "Up in a Ballooon"
Roud #4882
SAME TUNE:
Up In That Back Room ("One day I was married, the truth I will state, When you've heard my sad tale you will pity my fate") (Williams-Love-Among-Big-Nozes-Songster, p. 56)
NOTES [95 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.
Keen-Love-Among-Der-Sweitzer-Songster, p. 39, has a song, "Up in das Palloon," beginning "I vas, if you know it, a Madison pelle, Whom gaptivate vonce a feller vot swell"; it's clearly inspired by this, but I can't tell the details of the connection. - RBW
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