Mother and Child Reunion

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Mother and Child Reunion is a song written by Paul Simon, and is on his eponymous debut album. It has featured in an episode of The Simpsons. It was released as a single from the Paul Simon album and reached #4 on the American charts.

While the lyrics deal with an actual mourning situation, the title occurred to Simon when he looked at a menu offering a combination of chicken and eggs in the same dish.

This song is considered to be one of the first attempts at reggae music by a white musician. The name has its origin in a chicken-and-egg dish which Paul Simon saw on a Chinese restaurant's menu, that was named just like this "Mother and Child Reunion." The song has been interpreted as a meditation on death, specifically the death of a mother and the hope of reunification in the afterlife. The references to a "sad and mournful day" may support this theory.