More Modern Songs: “Coconut Oil”

(G)1 Here’s an emotion
(B7) let’s jump in an ocean
(E7) of lotion
(A7) of coconut oil
(D7) coconut oil
(G) coconut oil (D7)

I got a gal
heart full of mushrooms
she drinks oceans
of coconut oil
coconut oil
coconut oil

She tells me Joe don’t be so dry
she likes me all wet
night and day drenched
in coconut oil
coconut oil
coconut oil

A somewhat different version of the song “Coconut Oil” appears at the end of the novel “Coconut Oil.” In the book, the song is sung by Penina, who gets everyone in the pub singing the refrain line “coconut oil.”

The video below, which was copied and cut to show just the song “Coconut Oil,” is from the Instagram “Live at 5” show we made for the 2023 International Music on the Porch Day. It was too hot and smoky outside to play on the porch, so we’re inside.

I hope you like the song “Coconut Oil,” and play your own cover version! Let me know how it goes.

Pages 188-190 from the novel where Penina sings “Coconut Oil”:

Below, front and back covers of “Coconut Oil”:

The front cover photo (below) used on the book “Coconut Oil” I took up in Mount Tabor Park around 2007.

Below, the back cover photo is the cove at Refugio Beach California, which I took from the Coast Starlight Train around 1978.

Thank you for reading and listening!

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The letters/numbers in parentheses are guitar chords. Placement is approximate.