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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 know the (1)__________ 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 understand 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 (2)________________ and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (3)__________ of a modern Major-General
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I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I (4)____________ hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I quote in (5)________________ all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from (6)____________ Dows and Zoffanies
I know the (7)________________ chorus
From The Frogs 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 infernal nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a (8)______________ (9)________ in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every (10)____________ of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in (11)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I (12)________ what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (13)__________ from a javelin
When (14)________ affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is (15)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in (16)____________ gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (17)____________________ of elemental strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a-gee
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the (18)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I know what is (19)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (20)__________ a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more (21)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (22)________ learnt
What progress has been made in (23)____________ gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never rode a horse!
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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 (24)__________ of a (25)____________ Major-General!
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