This book of seminal ballads is inspired by the English nursery rhyme in the 1958 20th Century Fox motion picture Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman.
The author is a veteran of the USAF and a graduate of Claremont McKenna College. He studied Sorbonne, Paris, and is a photo journalist. He has gone to North Africa, Greece, Spain, and Italy. He is part of the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA in Hollywood.