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!"
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition