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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 kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From (1)________________ 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 (2)______________ 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 (3)________________ and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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I know our (4)____________ history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the (5)____________ of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from (6)____________ Dows and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of which I've (7)__________ the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And whistle all the airs
From (8)________ (9)________________ nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write 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 very (10)__________ of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I (11)________ what is (12)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (13)________ at (14)__________ a Mauser (15)__________ from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (16)________________ has been made in modern gunnery
When I know (17)________ of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering 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 beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (18)__________ of a modern 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 tell at (19)__________ a (20)____________ rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm (21)________ wary at
And when I know precisely
What is (22)__________ 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, 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 (23)______________ down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (24)________ model of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
(1) Marathon(2) teeming(3) integral(4) mythic(5) crimes(6) Gerard(7) heard(8) that(9) infernal(10) model(11) know(12) meant(13) tell(14) sight(15) rifle(16) progress(17) more(18) model(19) sight(20) Mauser(21) more(22) meant(23) brought(24) very