Achy Breaky Barbie

Achy Breaky Barbie

I learned to line dance to Billy Ray Cyrus' Achy Breaky heart in the 90's at an aerobics class.  I took a line dancing course ten years later and  I learned it again.  A few years ago, I started line dancing once a week with a group of patient friends and I learned it for a third time.

Things have progressed and I now sort of know a lot more dances.  I am always an eighth beat behind the group and often finish a turn facing in the wrong direction.

Barbie does everything with ease and grace.  She never misses a beat, always turns with precision and never panics during the bridge.  She can clap on the off-beat and count to eight over and over.

She's dressed for dancing in a blue suede skirt and vest and her favourite gingham shirt.

Barbie gives me an envious, achy-breaky heart.