 Then in 1971, Tom C. Hall releases his song, Mama Bake a Pie, Daddy Kill a Chicken. It's a story about a wheelchair-bound Vietnam veteran who's coming home from the war. He starts out by saying, the people are staring at me as they wheel me down the ramp toward my plane. The war is over for me. I've forgotten everything except the pain. In the chorus, you hear he's making a request for his homecoming meal, Mama Bake a Pie, Daddy Kill a Chicken.