A snippet of neighbourly gossip in rhyme about a balloon supposedly gone up to the moon. Its question-and-answer shape makes it fun to perform as two voices.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
"What is the news of the day,
Good neighbor, I pray?"
"They say the balloon
Is gone up to the moon!"
About this rhyme
Just four lines of gossip in rhyme: a neighbour asks the news, and the answer is nonsense, the balloon has gone up to the moon. It's a question and answer rhyme rather than a story, over almost as soon as it starts. Good for two voices, one asking properly and one delivering the daft answer straight faced.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition