Creative Writing: The Making Of Country Music

In the making of country music three young men, all of them twelve years of age, named Hank, Merle, and Johnny. Everyone said they were born crying loud, strong, and in a blues kind of tune. One day the boys met under a great big cedar tree. Ask Hank started moaning the blues Merle and Johnny chimed in singing in their smooth as molasses voices. As they got further into the song they saw the tree starting to twist and form into three weird shapes. The boys, scared to the point that their knees were trembling, kept singing until the tree stopped moving. Three guitars sat on the ground glowing. Johnny picked up his first and liked the way it felt in his hands. Merle picked his up and I craved in the wood was his name. Hank picked his up and turned it over the words “bend them strings” showed up in the back.

The boys, carrying their guitars, came to a shop that a man sold strings at. The owner at the store told the boys that, “if you can sing me the sweetest blues song I've heard you can have these strings for free.” Hank started moaning the same run as earlier. Merle and Johnny joined in, the man quickly grabbed all the strings off the shelves and gave them to …show more content…
Hank and Johnny cried and waited and sang together as they waited for Merle to come join them so they could sing their song. Years later Merle battled and battled lung cancer and it defeated him. Merle was finally able to join his friends and as Merle was walking up that flight of stairs he could hear Hank and Johnny moaning those soft sweet blues. When he finally joined them they sang, and sang, sang. People will miss thief friends, family, and heroes but sometimes you can still hear their song when the wind blows just right or a raindrop hits the ground a certain way or maybe when you go to their grave and touch the head stone. Anyway you hear it they'll always be there in your heart singing and moaning and bending the blues out of their