Listening to this song today, you might say that most of Hank’s rowdy friends may have settle down a bit too much. Hank friends, in this song are George Jones, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson. Of the four only Kris Kristofferson is still living. The other three may have settled down way too much. Just yesterday I was listening to music and a song by Johnny Cash came on the steaming service, it was from a live performance at Asbury Park New Jersey. Johnny said a few words before he sung Sunday Morning Coming Down, Johnny said this next song was written by a good friend of his, Kris Kristofferson, who had a birthday the other day, Johnny then said, Kris was 81. Johnny Cash thought that was funny when he said Kris was 81. This might had seemed funny back it 1985 when Johnny said that, but I just looked up Kris Kristofferson on the internet and it said Kris Kristofferson is today, and you may had guessed this, Kris Kristofferson is now 81 years old.
I was thinking back to my school days and come to think about it a lot of my friends that I when to school with have died. In my senior class there was about 450 students. I graduated high school in 1980, in two years that will be forty years ago! Back in 2000 we had our 20 year high school reunion. A few weeks before our reunion, we heard the news that Bruce Brown had died. Bruce wrote in our senior yearbook that it was his dream to become a doctor. Bruce was one of the smartest people I’ve ever met and it turns out that Bruce did become a doctor it fact he was an obstetrician. Bruce also loved to fly. A little while before our reunion Bruce was flying his small plane when he experience engine failure, and crashed his plane killing Bruce, his wife and his young children. At his doctor’s office people placed a long banner where a lot of the more than 3,000 babies that Dr. Bruce delivered into our world sighed their name and whatever else they would like to put on the banner. Since our 20th reunion many more of my classmates have died, I know of five that were at the reunion that had since died. Sad to say but I know there are more that I’m not aware of. A lot has changed since my 20th reunion, for instance there wasn’t face book way back in 2000. Today old people, like me, look on face book to find our old classmates, not because we liked these people in high school, we’re just wandering if they are still alive. —–Join me again tomorrow for another song and story. It may be a Christmas song or maybe not.