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"Chicken Pot Pie" is an unreleased parody song written by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It was written as a parody of "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney however Yankovic voluntarily decided not to release it after McCartney declined to support the parody as he felt it conflicted with his vegetarianism and condoned the consumption of meat.

History
"Weird Al" Yankovic is an American musician, specializing in performing parodies of popular songs. At an airport, the British singer Paul McCartney approached him and said to him "anytime you want to do one of my songs, it's yours". Two years passed before Yankovic decided to parody McCartney's James Bond song "Live and Let Die" and wrote "Chicken Pot Pie".

As a rule of thumb and courtesy, Yankovic always seeked permission from any artists whose songs he parodied to release any parody song despite not being required to under American law following the case of Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.. Following his personal rule, he approached McCartney for permission. However, despite initial enthusiasm for being parodied, McCartney declined to grant his consent. Yankovic stated "Paul didn’t want me to do it because he’s a strict vegetarian and he didn’t want a parody that condoned the consumption of animal flesh". McCartney did propose that he would grant consent if it was called "Tofu Pot Pie" however Yankovic refused citing that the chorus would contain the mimicking of a chicken clucking. Yankovic has however performed segments of the song during live concerts, debuting it in 1992 as part of his "Fast Food Medley" (a compilation of segments of some of Yankovic's food related songs). Yankovic and McCartney never held any ill will over the declination with McCartney agreeing to a comedy interview between the two in 1996.