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