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
Tom Gallon Make-Believes" (1918), "The Lackey and the Lady" (1919), "A Rogue in Love" (1922), "Boden's Boy" (1923), "Off the Highway" (1925, based on "Tatterley") and "The Great Gay Road" (1920, and later as a sound film of the same title in 1931). Tom Gallon Tom Gallon (5 December 1866 – 4 November 1914) was a British playwright and novelist. He was the brother of author and publicist Nellie Tom-Gallon, who founded the Tom-Gallon Trust Award for beginning writers in memory of her brother. A large number of his books were turned into films. Thomas Henry Gallon was born in Bermondsey, London,