How Many Miles to Babylon? In the 1824 edition of "The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia" there's a description of the rhyme and the game, giving the distance as "six, seven or a lang eight". The rhyme was originally accompanied by a singing game in which two lines face each other, with one player in the middle. At the end of the rhyme the players have to cross the space and any caught help the original player in the middle catch the others. The game seems to have fallen out of use in the twentieth century. In literature In film In music How Many Miles to Babylon?
The Bells of Hell Go Ting-a-ling-a-ling base at Friedrichshafen, was abandoned after early snow in the Alps. This song was also used for the opening and end credits to "A Perfect Hero", a 1991 TV miniseries set in World War II England. The first two lines are also used in "Bells of Hell" a song from Kevin Quain's "Tequila Vampire Matinee" with "you" being replaced with "thee." Though usually associated with World War I, and apparently parodying the earlier song "She Only Answered 'Ting-a-ling-a-ling'" the song apparently also has links with the Salvation Army, as referenced in "The Mixer and Server, Volume 20" of 1911: "In