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
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning Yaphank", and "Ziegfeld Follies of 1918", as well as in 113 Broadway performances of "This Is the Army" in 1942. Jack Haley sang "Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning" in the 1938 movie "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and in 1938 Alice Faye and Ethel Merman also sang the song at the Roxy Theatre in New York City. It was sung at a 1941 war rally against the America First Committee by New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in Philadelphia. The song is sung in the 1932 Betty Boop short entitled "Oh! How I Hate to Get