Receta Put the Lime in the Coconut.

In 1972 (Wow, I was 14 years old!), a song was featured regularly on the radio, Coconut by singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson.  I remember being in high school and question was, “What is this song Oh there were many answers bandied about, from the simplest answer – stomach ache, to the worst – back alley abortion technique.  It was the 70s and what was not strange those The story behind the is basically a narrator (the singer) telling the story of a girl with a ache, she calls a doctor that tells her to drink a concoction made of and lime.  It does not work, calls the doctor again and wakes him up; angry, he tells her to put a lime inside a coconut, shake it up and drink it all…