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Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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I am the very model of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I (1)________ the (2)__________ of England
And I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I (3)____________________ equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific (4)__________ of (5)____________ animalculous
In short, in (6)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (7)________ model of a modern Major-General
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I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I (8)____________ hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can (9)__________ peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The (10)__________ of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of which I've heard the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And whistle all the airs
From that (11)________________ nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can (12)__________ a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (13)________ model of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (14)________ at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I (15)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (16)________ I've a smattering of elemental strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has (17)__________ sat a-gee
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (18)__________ of a (19)____________ Major-General
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(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (20)________ at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is (21)__________ by "commissariat"
When I (22)________ learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (23)______________ than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (24)________ I've a (25)____________________ of (26)__________________ strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never (27)________ a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the (28)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (29)________ model of a modern Major-General!
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