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A song called "He'd Have to Get Under, Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile)" was one of the big hits of 1913. The tune was by Maurice Abrahams, the lyrics were written by Grant Clarke and Edgar Leslie, and it was recorded by many, many artists and played everywhere popular music was then played.

I have no idea where I first heard it but it's been rattling around in my head since I was a wee lad in the fifties. It may begin rattling in yours after you watch this recently-performed version of it from The Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra. They're performing the original 1913 arrangement and the vocalist is William Edwards.

It might help the experience if you imagine that somewhere, you find an old metal box. You take it away to a place of seclusion where no one can see you, you open it and out pops a frog. The frog puts on a top hat and proceeds to sing this…