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 (2)________ acquainted, too, (3)________ matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm (4)______________ with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (5)________ cheerful facts
About the (6)____________ of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good 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 (7)____________ history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a (8)____________ taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the (9)____________ 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 (10)__________ 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 model of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I know (11)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (12)________ at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm (13)________ wary at
And when I (14)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in (15)____________ gunnery
When I know more 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 (16)__________ sat a-gee
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm (17)____________ and adventury
Has (18)________ 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 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 (19)____________ rifle (20)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And (21)________ I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (22)________________ 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 (23)__________ rode a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm (24)____________ and adventury
Has only (25)________ brought down
To the (26)__________________ of the century
But still, in (27)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
...
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 (2)________ acquainted, too, (3)________ matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm (4)______________ with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (5)________ cheerful facts
About the (6)____________ of the hypotenuse
...
I'm very good 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
...
I know our (7)____________ history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a (8)____________ taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the (9)____________ 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 (10)__________ 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 matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
In fact
When I know (11)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (12)________ at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm (13)________ wary at
And when I (14)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in (15)____________ gunnery
When I know more 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 (16)__________ sat a-gee
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm (17)____________ and adventury
Has (18)________ 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 more time?!)
...
In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a (19)____________ rifle (20)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And (21)________ I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (22)________________ 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 (23)__________ rode a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm (24)____________ and adventury
Has only (25)________ brought down
To the (26)__________________ of the century
But still, in (27)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
(1) Marathon(2) well(3) with(4) teeming(5) many(6) square(7) mythic(8) pretty(9) crimes(10) Frogs(11) what(12) tell(13) more(14) know(15) modern(16) never(17) plucky(18) only(19) Mauser(20) from(21) when(22) progress(23) never(24) plucky(25) been(26) beginning(27) matters