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
Cash (Chinese coin) are: Trial coins with "Fujian Sheng Zao" (), "Min Sheng Tong Yong" (), and a "Fujian Tong Bao" with a reverse inscribed with "Er Wen Sheng Zao" () were also cast, but never circulated. The earliest standard denominations of cash coins were theoretically based on the weight of the coin and were as follows: The most common denominations were the ½ tael () and the 5 zhū () coins, the latter being the most common coin denomination in Chinese history. From the Zhou to the Tang dynasty the word "quán" (泉) was commonly used to refer to cash coins however