How Many Miles to Babylon? How Many Miles to Babylon? "How Many Miles to Babylon" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 8148. The accepted modern lyrics are: <poem>How many miles to Babylon? Three score miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, and back again.. If your heels are nimble and your toes are light, You may get there by candle-light.</poem> A longer Scottish version has the lyrics: <poem>King and Queen of Cantelon, How many miles to Babylon? Eight and eight, and other eight. Will I get there by candle-light? If your horse be
Baltimore (tug) the repair period to replace "Baltimore's" boiler. In her capacity as an official welcoming vessel for the City of Baltimore, "Baltimore" met the German unarmed merchant submarine "Deutschland" on her first voyage to America, prior to the United States' entry into World War I. "Baltimore" and the city quarantine tug "Thomas F. Timmins" patrolled the vicinity of "Deutschland's" berth to ensure American neutrality. In 1956 the Baltimore Harbor Board was dissolved and its assets, including "Baltimore", transferred to the Maryland Port Authority. In 1963 the state sold "Baltimore" to Alexander Luckton, Jr., owner of Baltimore's Poe Bookstore. Luckton proposed to