A few years back, after our camp-out at Anastasia State Park and meeting a wonderful and very talented songwriter/performer, Carly Bak, I had the idea that it would be great to have a theme song for this organization. I was totally in love with both Carly's style and her voice and mentioned that I was going to ask her if she would write something for us to another member, Gary Turnage of St. Augustine, FL. Gary asked if I would let him try to create the lyrics first. Okay. I told Gary what had to be included in the song and a couple of days later he emailed me some lyrics that with some tweaks from me were exactly what I'd hoped for. Amazing job Gary! I contacted Carly about writing the music and performing the song. She said she would, made some more tweaks to the lyrics and a few weeks later the most amazing and beautiful finished product was done.

Eventually, I am working on gathering the right images as I want to turn this into a music video, but for now, listen away. And, many kudos to Carly Bak and Gary Turnage, whose pictures are below.

• The Ballad of John Serro

A big round of applause for Carly and Gary! Hear more and buy Carly's music.

Song is copyrighted and may not be reproduced without my express written permission.