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
Obsolete Polish units of measurement two "grzywnas", each in turn comprising 16 lots ("łut" of 0.0127 kg). For heavier goods the basic units were a stone ("kamień", 32 pounds or 12.976 kg) and Hundredweight ("cetnar", five stones or 64.80 kg). There were two sets of units of volume: one for fluids and the other for dry goods. Both used the gallon ("garniec") of 3.7689 litres as the basic unit. This was subdivided into 4 quarts (') of 0.9422 L or 16 '. For dry goods four gallons comprised a measure ('), 2 measures comprised a quarter ('), 4 quarters comprised a bushel (') of 120.6