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?
Signify they were included with the rest of the full band tracks on "Metanoia". Still, the compilation retains ten tracks through the inclusion of the track "Dark Origins" and the indexing of Hallogallo/Signify into two separate tracks (despite still running continuously from one to the other). B-sides from the era, including "The Sound of No-One Listening" (from the "Waiting" single and the original vinyl pressing of "Signify") and "Fuse the Sky" (a remix of the title track from "The Sky Moves Sideways" released on an ambient compilation) appear in addition to the aforementioned "Signify II" and "Colourflow in Mind" (an album