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
The Best of Tubular Bells The Best of Tubular Bells The Best of Tubular Bells is a compilation album written and mostly performed by Mike Oldfield. It was released in 2001 and features segments from all of the "Tubular Bells" albums up to that year. It is a single CD which consists of pieces of various past versions of "Tubular Bells" albums; "Tubular Bells" (1973), "The Orchestral Tubular Bells" (1975), "Tubular Bells live" (1979), "Tubular Bells II" (1992), "Tubular Bells III" (1998) and "The Millennium Bell" (1999). The album has been re-edited so that the changes between most of the different parts of "Tubular Bells"