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Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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I am the (1)________ model of a (2)____________ Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings of England
And I quote the (3)____________ historical
From (4)________________ to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very (5)________ acquainted, too, with (6)______________ 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 integral and differential calculus
I (7)________ the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (8)__________ of a modern Major-General
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I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a (9)____________ taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard (10)________ and Zoffanies
I know the croaking 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 washing (11)________ in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in (12)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very 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 tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such (13)______________ as sorties
And surprises I'm (14)________ (15)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is (16)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (17)________________ has been (18)________ in modern gunnery
When I (19)________ more of (20)______________ 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 (21)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (22)______________ down
To the (23)__________________ 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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(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And (25)________ I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (26)________ learnt
What progress has (27)________ made in modern gunnery
When I (28)________ 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 (29)________ 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 model of a modern Major-General!
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