====== #419 - Up in a Balloon ======
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  *Composer:
    *++George William Hunt|{{search>"George William Hunt" @cobs}}++ (1839-1904), 1868
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
One night I went up in a balloon,\\
On a voyage of discov'ry to visit the moon,\\
Where an old man dwells, so some people say,\\
"Through cutting of sticks on a Sunday,"\\
Up went the balloon quickly higher and higher,\\
Over housetop and chimney-pot, tower and spire,\\
I knock'd off the Monument's top very high,\\
And caught hold of the cross of St. Paul's going by.\\
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Up in a balloon,\\
Up in a balloon,\\
All among the little stars, sailing round the moon;\\
Up in a balloon,\\
Up in a balloon,\\
It's something awfully jolly to be\\
Up in a balloon.\\
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Up, up I was borne with terrible pow'r,\\
At the rate of ten thousand five hundred an hour,\\
The air was cold, the wind blew loud,\\
I narrowly escap'd being chok'd by a cloud;\\
Still up I went, till surrounded by stars,\\
And such planets as Jupiter, Venus, and Mars ;\\
The Big and the Little Bear loudly did growl,\\
And the Dog Star on seeing me set up a howl.\\
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I met shooting stars who were bent upon sport,\\
But who "shot" in a very strange manner I thought,\\
And one thing beat all my chalks I must say,\\
That was when I got into the Milky Way,\\
I counted the stars, till at last I thought\\
I had found out how much they were worth by the quart,\\
An unpolite "Aerolite" who ran 'gainst my car,\\
Wouldn't give "e'er a light" to light my cigar.\\
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Next a comet went by 'midst fire like hail,\\
To give me a lift, I seized hold of his tail;\\
To where he was going I didn't enquire,\\
We'd gone past the moon, till we couldn't get higher;\\
Yes we'd got to the furthermost!!, don't think I joke,\\
When somehow I felt a great shock--I awoke!\\
When instead of balloon, moon and planets, I saw,\\
I'd tumbled from off my bed to the floor.\\
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And there was no balloon--there was no balloon,\\
There were not any planets, and there wasn't any moon;\\
So never sup too heavy or by jingo very soon\\
You're like to fancy you are going up in a balloon.\\
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    *++George William Hunt|{{search>"George William Hunt" @cobs}}++ (1839-1904), 1868