This song brings back the memory of sitting in the end of year exam at high school and someone at the back, in the heavy silence and concentration that goes with a big exam, says loudly ''Now let me get this straight, you put the lime in the coconut...'' and the whole exam had to be postponed because we were practically inconsolable.
OMG .....my wife had an upset stomach all night, so we went to the grocery store today, and she bought limes and coconuts.....and I almost lost it in the grocery store.....in Brazil, she had never hear this song before but I was rolling in the aisles.......
This song never gets old and always makes me laugh. I was just diagnosed with crohns and couldn't get this song out of my head. Maybe I need to eat more coconuts.
I remember, I heard this song, after decades of not hearing it, on the radio, and I kept singing it, and my little sister asked me what I was singing. I told her and she accused me of making the song up, that there couldn't possibly be a song like that, and I said, I swear, it was a popular song in 1970 or 71, and she still didn't believe me. Years later, I was driving to my mom's house, and just as I pulled into the driveway, the song came on on the radio, so, I called her up on my cellphone and told her that song was on this specific radio station and to turn on her radio at work so she could listen to it. She just happened to be driving around due to some work related appointments and she said she was listening to it, and she laughed her head off at how silly it was. She also accused me of making up Barbara Mandrell's, "You Can Eat Crackers in My Bed", too, UNTIL she heard it!! LOL!!
Fun fact. Due to a clerical error within the gov't this song was Canada's official national anthem for 3 weeks in August 1974 until, oddly enough, the mixup was spotted by actor Pat John who played Jessie on The Beachcombers.
I first heard this song on the ending credits of Reservoir Dogs. That moment when the camera just pans up from Harvey Keitel to the ceiling with sounds of gunshots being fired and the ambiguity of who shot who still reeling in the mind and then this just comes on as the credits roll. What a moment.
Same! 😂 I was hooked! I heard the song somewhere one time so I kinda knew it but after reservoir dogs I had to finally look it up. Such a silly song. I'm convinced of this remedy if they're willing to make a song for it.. I'll definitely have to try it next time I get a tummy ache.
Lance and Nigel were my favorite characters in bones. (Also Finn and Wendall) I bawled my eyes out. We're rewatching the show. We had just seen the episode where Lance passes, so sad. Listening to this makes me feel better. 😢
Nothing sexier than watching korean street foods on facebook and seeing a truck full of coconuts and people pealing them to make some good health drinks combined with this song!
So nice... I was ten years old listening to my am radio basking in the morning sun on a fishing dock fishing for anything that would bite on the Willamette river and this song came played at least 3 times on this station I listened too!! Memories, probably I'd say some of the best times of my life! Not a care in the world!! "Doctor relieve my belly ache."....
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Practical Magic when Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are in the kitchen dancing. ICONIC MOMENT IF YA TELL ME. That movie is why I became obsessed with this song!
Back then song lyrics were not available easy and so I thought for years he sang "put the LION in the coconut" and yes I was wondering about the meaning xD
The time has come! My Great niece is coming up on 1&1/2 years old and I must make it my mission to familiarize her with this uplifting song. Great memories with me and my three sisters!!
This is absolute production and songwriting GENIUS. I love how it pulls on the time and feels like it is about to go flying off the track, such beautiful subtle manipulation of time, dynamics, very slight phrase adjustments (sometimes called phasing), mind melting harmonies, and off such a simple little riff. Brilliant.
I was in an accident and was headed back to emergency surgery. I said “I think I’m ok, I’m just kinda scared”. Anesthesia, surgeons, techs, nurses started singing this to me as my meds kicked in while they were pushing me down the hall. Turns out I was kicking the bucket. The team saved my life with a sense of humor. Shout out to St. Luke’s in KC.
Such a cool and funny song! Love to play this song if my son is playing on his Xbox!!! It makes him giggle and then he would lose the battle he and friends played all night to win!! 😂😂😂 Work every time 😂😂😂😂😂
Fortunately, this is not a song I have gotten stuck in my head as I tend to do without trying, although back in the day it was played a lot on the radio and I haven't heard it since, at least not on the radio, until last week and NOW it is in my head for sure. Who knows for how long? Never realized just how brilliant, wacky, circular and, to a degree, hypnotic it was until the last week or so. What a fun song. It needs to be brought back into popularity somehow for the world to hear. Wonder if Harry ever did this one live?
I love this song. I was 12 and there were so many weird songs (My Dingaling, Bertha Butt, Disco Duck etc around these years, ugh!) but this one is perfect in its nonsense! Just makes you smile and want to dance!
Discovered this song when I crashed at my brothers dorm in university, we just had some *regular* brownies and after hearing this song I couldn't stop laughing. I will now play this for similar occasions in the foreseeable future.
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This song brings back the memory of sitting in the end of year exam at high school and someone at the back, in the heavy silence and concentration that goes with a big exam, says loudly ''Now let me get this straight, you put the lime in the coconut...'' and the whole exam had to be postponed because we were practically inconsolable.
LordOstrich oh my freaking god.
That happened. 🙄
LordO, Omg, 😂😂😂too hilarious. I love it.Thanks for the share.
What year, in 1971? I don't get it. Why were you inconsolable?
It’s true I was the table
BONES “Vicent and Sweets” ♥️
Yes!
thought you were talking about the rapper bones lol
OMG YESS
I’m here for Bones too 🥴
Jajaja por lo mismo llegué aquí
OMG .....my wife had an upset stomach all night, so we went to the grocery store today, and she bought limes and coconuts.....and I almost lost it in the grocery store.....in Brazil, she had never hear this song before but I was rolling in the aisles.......
Cool classic
THAT'S FUNNY...😂😂😂
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
😂😂😂😂
That is wild awesome!
Here's to midnight margaritas anytime!
I love Practical Magic. It's got great music and is so well done. ❤
Nigel Murray and Lance Sweets
they deserved better
RIP
Just watched the episode where Vincent does 😢😭
Juts I watch when Sweets dies
😭😭😭😭😭
This will forever be one of my favorite songs. Thanks Bones!
This Is Horrible
@@jakebutler8481 no taste
Wtf is “bones”?
@@jg1772 a show
@@tomibelpolanco4203 ahhh, well thanks!
Only a genius like Harry Nilsson could take a C7 guitar chord and make a masterpiece out of it.....
Rip Mr White , Orange, Blue, Brown, Blonde, Joe and Nice Guy Eddie.
Nls
Reservoir Dogs
This was one of my favorite songs in 1972. Until BONES this week, I haven't thought about it THANKS SWEETS.
That’s why I’m here, just saw that show. R.I.P. Vincent, lol 😆
Alan Wake brought me here and boy am I so happy haha! 😂
Bones…Miss both Sweets and Nigel Murray. They were very lovable characters. Love the show even after all these years
This song never gets old and always makes me laugh. I was just diagnosed with crohns and couldn't get this song out of my head. Maybe I need to eat more coconuts.
ingest high THC cannabis oil. make it yourself.
Actually i have Crohns and my nutritionist suggested a coconut water with lime, salt and pomegranate 🤣
Hope you're doing well
I read an article where someone put fentanyl in the coconut 😂
Best of luck.
Sweets and Nigel Murray 😢💔
Same
I remember, I heard this song, after decades of not hearing it, on the radio, and I kept singing it, and my little sister asked me what I was singing. I told her and she accused me of making the song up, that there couldn't possibly be a song like that, and I said, I swear, it was a popular song in 1970 or 71, and she still didn't believe me. Years later, I was driving to my mom's house, and just as I pulled into the driveway, the song came on on the radio, so, I called her up on my cellphone and told her that song was on this specific radio station and to turn on her radio at work so she could listen to it. She just happened to be driving around due to some work related appointments and she said she was listening to it, and she laughed her head off at how silly it was. She also accused me of making up Barbara Mandrell's, "You Can Eat Crackers in My Bed", too, UNTIL she heard it!! LOL!!
Lol, good story. Tell her about Hocus Pocus by Focus or There Coming to Take Me Away by Napoleon
Thanks for the recommendations!
My employees thought the same thing of me. I had to look this up and played it for them so they could believe me
The same thing has happened with me and the younger members of my family! Great story!!
😂❤❤❤❤❤
Fun fact. Due to a clerical error within the gov't this song was Canada's official national anthem for 3 weeks in August 1974 until, oddly enough, the mixup was spotted by actor Pat John who played Jessie on The Beachcombers.
Aa. iS that really true?
how
Classic Canada
As much as i wish this was true, I can't find anything about it online. Unless you got a source, this is probably BS
😂@@hisyam1664
My daughter and I used to dance around to this song when she was little. Since then she’s even told me she wants this song played at my funeral😂
Awww me & my big sis too !!!! BLESS YOU & YOUR DAUGHTER 🌟🌟👑👑
My heart broke when Dr. Sweets passed away, I can't with that 😞
R.I.P. Vincent and Sweets
Vincent and Sweets :'c
Me dicen Vivi Love forever❤️
Me too!
Dr
me too!!Love the serie
That’s why I’m here tbh I guess
All I did was type in "lime" for a random search and discovered this song. Funny how you can discover songs that way! 😉
It's amazing what can be done on only one chord.
I thought you were gonna say one coconut
Literally here listening to the song because of Vincent Nigel Murray and Dr Lance sweets R.I.P. (Bones)
10 years. TEN YEARS AND ITS STILL STUCK IN MY HEAD.
same man, same....
I heard this when it first came out, and it's still stuck in my head
Maybe you need some lime in a coconut and drink it all up
I first heard this song on the ending credits of Reservoir Dogs. That moment when the camera just pans up from Harvey Keitel to the ceiling with sounds of gunshots being fired and the ambiguity of who shot who still reeling in the mind and then this just comes on as the credits roll. What a moment.
Same! 😂 I was hooked! I heard the song somewhere one time so I kinda knew it but after reservoir dogs I had to finally look it up. Such a silly song. I'm convinced of this remedy if they're willing to make a song for it.. I'll definitely have to try it next time I get a tummy ache.
I miss Vincent Nigel Murray. :'(
+MorganL12166 It was awesome that Angela put her sons name as Michael Vincent!
Just when he was having so much fun doing the t-rex whyyyyy D':
And then sweets too😭😭
i cant watch that episode any more i leave the room lol
Me too😭😭
Heard this in House... stuck in my head for dayyyyyyys !
Same... Same
It Sucks So Bad
its been more than 7 years i think that i watched the episode and i still remember it
Same!
Same I did too
Vincent Nigel Murray😣 always reminded of him hearing this
Lance and Nigel were my favorite characters in bones. (Also Finn and Wendall) I bawled my eyes out. We're rewatching the show. We had just seen the episode where Lance passes, so sad. Listening to this makes me feel better. 😢
me too
I think more than 80% of viewers of this are here only because of Bones...me too and i know that’s not real but rest in peace Sweets and Nigel Murray
I could not agree more!!!😭😭😭
tfs goku : row row row your boat
Yeah me too
Reservoir Dogs
Some of us learned it on the Muppet Show and then got reminded of it due to a really similar riff in a background tune in Monster Hunter Rise :p
Rip sweets, Vincent Nigel Murray and Bones
Bones didn't die?
But Bones ended, the 12th season is the last😢
Nothing sexier than watching korean street foods on facebook and seeing a truck full of coconuts and people pealing them to make some good health drinks combined with this song!
I'm here for Vincent and Sweets
I first knew this song from the end of "Reservoir Dogs" which it's time to watch again
Ah finally a man of culture
This is the comment I've been looking for
Hahaha.
Why do I have to be mr. Pink?
Great movie.
Great acting.
Great soundtrack.
Yep and me?
Here I am
Stuck in the
Middle with you.
I didn't think I would have to come this far down to find this
"You shoot me in a dream you better wake up and apologize"...1 of the baddest tough guy lines of all time
Heard this song in early 1970's...when it was first released...... on AM Radio...now I feel old.
Dont feel old. You are old
redhellfire 123 dang
@@gnja_jdot1815 jim dartouzos is not old. just older. respect your elders.
Susan Tchokreff early 1970s is old not my fault grampa can work youtube. Respect ur superiors
@@gnja_jdot1815 I AM one of your superiors. I'm 61 years old.
I miss Sweets, I miss Bones
One of the few shows you can rewatch forever and never gets old.
Memories of putting quarters in the Jukebox over and over and over again for this song on a Staten Island Beach
thanks twitter!
I love the song. It has been playing in my head since 1972. If people hate it that means more song for me.
heard it when Dr. Sweets was shot down (Bones)
It's from when Nigel Murray was shot
Thinkabit More And on the funeral of Vincent!
Calm down; Vincent was Mr. Nigel-Murray's first name.
i know right! i sang it to my grandpa every day and made him mad! XD
it frist played for vincent nigal murphew at his funeral that why angela name her son michael vincent
So nice... I was ten years old listening to my am radio basking in the morning sun on a fishing dock fishing for anything that would bite on the Willamette river and this song came played at least 3 times on this station I listened too!! Memories, probably I'd say some of the best times of my life! Not a care in the world!! "Doctor relieve my belly ache."....
thanks to practical magic ove known this song for 20 years!!!! thank you!!!! 😊 🙏 💕💫
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Practical Magic when Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman are in the kitchen dancing. ICONIC MOMENT IF YA TELL ME. That movie is why I became obsessed with this song!
I was sitting in the car with my parents and this song came on the radio and I was so high and spacing out the experience was stellar
For anyone who's interested, when she called him in the morning he told her to put the lime in the coconut.
A Twitter comment under a post by Jayhumour brought me here
Binge watching bones.. Heard about this song.. Sweets Jam and Nigel-Murray's fav song.. Miss them 😢❤️
Same 😢😢
same
We get such songs, when we don't care about the science of Coconut and Lime but think of them as a lovely couple.
😂
Thanks twitter
Rip Nigel Murray and sweets
Back then song lyrics were not available easy and so I thought for years he sang "put the LION in the coconut" and yes I was wondering about the meaning xD
Vincent and Sweets ..i miss u guys 💔
Bones brought me here. ;)
Most silly songs are just rubbish but this one is genius and so funky.
The time has come! My Great niece is coming up on 1&1/2 years old and I must make it my mission to familiarize her with this uplifting song. Great memories with me and my three sisters!!
This is absolute production and songwriting GENIUS. I love how it pulls on the time and feels like it is about to go flying off the track, such beautiful subtle manipulation of time, dynamics, very slight phrase adjustments (sometimes called phasing), mind melting harmonies, and off such a simple little riff.
Brilliant.
Harry was a creative genius. I wonder if he was inspired by "Bolero" in this song. It builds and builds on the same theme to a climax.
WOW -- You sure can interpret the artist's intentions here.
Concur! (One of our greatest songwriters ever...)
You all got balls resilient..
2 pac of brill...I ain't..
That chill, I quill, the kill, and just deal...p.p.
Far out
This brings back childhood memories
I'm 31 weeks pregnant and my baby is the weight of a coconut. My dad sent me this. 😅🥰
Awww cute well I hope you and the baby are happy!
Bones💜💚❤️
cameron s fuck off
Cynthia Anabel De La Rosa Ramirez YESSSS!!!!! 😍😍😍❤️😍❤️❤️❤️😍❤️
House M.D
Old people complaining about current music but then they have songs like this back in the day lol
I was in an accident and was headed back to emergency surgery. I said “I think I’m ok, I’m just kinda scared”. Anesthesia, surgeons, techs, nurses started singing this to me as my meds kicked in while they were pushing me down the hall. Turns out I was kicking the bucket. The team saved my life with a sense of humor. Shout out to St. Luke’s in KC.
This song has been stuck in my head for years . Now I finally found you Harry .😊
I'm finding me still yo!
The 70’s were a time in America that encompassed all types of music, unlike today’s reheated trash.
Tiny Desk, KEXP .... there's more good music now than ever.
Twitter guy with mysterious meme sent me here.
Samee
I'm 55 used to dance around the house singing this to drive mom bonkers when I was a child
This old song is new to me and I love it love it love it to bits. :)
this just one of his big hits one of his best one of a kind voice in a nutty way
*witchbarb*
Are limes & coconuts listed as ingredients in any spell books, do you know? ; )
@@evelynbogdanThen don’t come back.
Such a cool and funny song! Love to play this song if my son is playing on his Xbox!!! It makes him giggle and then he would lose the battle he and friends played all night to win!! 😂😂😂 Work every time 😂😂😂😂😂
ooh so thats what that tweet was about
I just came back from Jamaica and I was told that Coconut Water and Lime Juice actually helps with the digestive system. I'm going to trying it.
Nice.
Lol Jamaicans always saying that just like my mom keep saying ginger and garlic tea is good for ur synus
And how was ur experience in my country
Fortunately, this is not a song I have gotten stuck in my head as I tend to do without trying, although back in the day it was played a lot on the radio and I haven't heard it since, at least not on the radio, until last week and NOW it is in my head for sure. Who knows for how long? Never realized just how brilliant, wacky, circular and, to a degree, hypnotic it was until the last week or so. What a fun song. It needs to be brought back into popularity somehow for the world to hear. Wonder if Harry ever did this one live?
I'm convinced this was the first example of musical trolling ever
it is 5 am and i cannot sleep. this is the source of my energy
An extraordinary example of what happens when you combine with a silly, nonsensical song & one chord ~ with talented perfectionist Harry Nilsson.
PUT DEH LAIM IN TEH COKEONUHT
lol u fukun maroon
HOI OIM TEM
Bring back the old days
Hi, I’m Bob
Im guessing you have a temmie-ache
LOVE THIS SONG!!! ALWAYS PUTS A BIG SMILE ON MY FACE!!!
This is one of very few songs that does not change chords. It never modulates in tone.
eternally brilliant ... perhaps even therapeutic !!!
I'm from Hawaii I grew up loving this song
Harry? One of the best! Man he could sing...
RIP Lance
The dislikes are the ones who couldn’t put a lime in the coconut
Does nobody remember this from The Muppet Show? A catchy and eerie scene at the same time!
Just watched the episode where Sweets died, as stupid as this sounds, this song gave me goosebumps. I miss him already😢
Same here 😓😢
me too
me as well
I was so sad...it was my favorite character...i miss him
I just watched the episode where Vincent dies and they all sing this song at the end because it was his favorite. 😭
Time for midnight margaritas! 💃🍸
Favorite song from my childhood. Still love it.😂❤
I miss Nigel Murray and Sweets...
Alan wake anyone?
This song is a great study in pop minimalism
I'd say David Essex's "Rock On" is an even better one. This one is still good tho.
Simple, elegant is this way done.
I love this song. I was 12 and there were so many weird songs (My Dingaling, Bertha Butt, Disco Duck etc around these years, ugh!) but this one is perfect in its nonsense! Just makes you smile and want to dance!
I heard this song at Bones(movie) in 2015 and it's so catchy :D
Bones has a movie?
No, is a serie, beautiful! xD
I heard this song 49 or 50 years ago. And yeah, you're right, it is catchy.
Discovered this song when I crashed at my brothers dorm in university, we just had some *regular* brownies and after hearing this song I couldn't stop laughing. I will now play this for similar occasions in the foreseeable future.
Suuuuurrrre they were regular. Just kidding,😂
K Billy’s Supersounds of the 70s just keeps on… truckin
On the station where the 70s SURVIVED!
The album that this is on (Nilsson Schmilsson) is a masterpiece - every song...
My all time favorite album. I was 22 when it was released, and I love it just as much at 70.
'Jump Into the Fire' was a MAJOR butt kicker! (Same album, isn't it?) 'Without You' was awesome, too.
Thank you
Grew up playing this with my uncle and LOVE IT TO BITS!!! One of the most fun songs EVER!!!
Vincent & Sweets ♡
Summer of 1972 , baby!
One of the best uses ever of mainly a C7 chord used in a calypso style.
POV you here from twitter
Twitter brought me here
same
same here
Love Love Love Love
this VIBE! 🎧🎶🍈🥥
omg that is just awesome. what a great memory and story.