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 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