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
Gary Gallon political arena made him an authority on "Green" economics. In the early 1990s he became president of Montreal-based think tank called the Canadian Institute for Business and the Environment (CIBE) "filling" what he called the "knowledge gap" of protecting the environment based on the logic of economics. On July 3, 2003, Gary Gallon died after a long battle with cancer. He was 58. Gary Gallon Gary Thomas Gallon (October 1, 1945 – July 3, 2003) was a Canadian environmental activist and policy advisor. President of the Canadian Institute for Business and the Environment, and editor of "The Gallon Environment Letter",