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Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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I am the very model of a (1)____________ Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings 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 (2)________________ theorem I'm teeming (3)________ a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many (4)________________ facts
About the (5)____________ of the hypotenuse
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I'm very (6)________ at integral 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 mythic 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 crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor (7)__________________________ parabolous
I can (8)________ undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows 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 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 (9)__________ of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (10)________ at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm (11)________ (12)________ at
And when I (13)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I (14)________ more of (15)______________ (16)________ 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 (17)________________ 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 (19)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (20)________ at (21)__________ a Mauser rifle (22)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (23)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has (24)________ made in modern gunnery
When I (25)________ more of (26)______________ 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 (27)______________ down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (28)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
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