Question: what does the song lime in the coconut mean

title: Coconut (song)
text: Other cover versions of the song have been recorded by the Baha Men , Fred Schneider ( on the `` Everybody Sings Nilsson '' tribute album ) , Lazlo Bane , Sprung Monkey , P.M. Dawn , and , according to a Nilsson website , the Alice Cooper Band . Kermit the Frog and other Muppet characters covered the song in a video on The Muppet Show ( as part of episode 4.10 , with guest Kenny Rogers ) . The scene showed Kermit in a hospital bed , having hurt his flipper after slipping on some oil on the floor in the theater , joining hospital staff singing the song as the room developed a jungle theme . The song was also used in commercials for Coca - Cola with Lime . These ads are set in a Coke factory and a corporate boardroom and feature various people incorrectly singing the line as `` you put the lime in the Coke , you nut ! '' Fred Schneider performed the song on Late Night with Conan O'Brien after the release of the 1995 `` Everybody Sings Nilsson '' tribute album , for which the song was the lead single . He was joined on the show by the track 's producer Richard Barone of The Bongos on lead guitar .