A.P. Carter was called a “songcatcher,” a musician who collected lyrics and melodies from family members, friends, and neighbors. Carter worked and traveled with African American musician Lesley Riddle to gather music from towns throughout the U.S. On one of these song-catching trips, Carter found the folk tune that became the the Carter Family's 1929 “I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes.” A string of country song-writers — Roy Acuff, Hank Thompson, and Kitty Wells — produced their own hit songs by writing new lyrics to the same melody in the decades that followed. In this ELA exercise, students will compare meaning through lyrical analysis, learn about the concept of an "answer song," and consider the role of collaboration and iteration in music and art more broadly.