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The tradition of poetry written in the form of a song contest or struggle, in which one speaker answers the other, dates back to the very beginnings of recorded literature, back to Sumerian times, and was a popular form in Classical pastoral poetry (as in the ''Idylls'' of Theocritus and [[The Aeneid (Literature)|Vergil's]] ''Eclogues''). Since little distinction was made between poems and songs in those early days, the [[Answer Song]] can presumably be similarly dated to Antiquity. It was certainly in use by the time of the Middle Ages, when the [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_debate_poetry:Medieval debate poetry|debate poem]] was a popular genre among the troubadors, the exchange being denoted as a ''tensó, tenson,'' or ''tençó'' in Occitan, a ''tenzone'' in Italian, and a "flyting" in Scots English; many of these were definitely set to music (''e.g.'', the opposed ''sirventes'' by [[Richard the Lion Heart]] and the Count of Artois that their men sang against each other).

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** Though [[One -Hit Wonder|neither was Eamon]]