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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 Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial (1)______________ 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 know the scientific names of (2)____________ animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (3)____________ 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 (5)____________ taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can (6)________ undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The (7)__________ of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of which I've (8)__________ the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And (9)______________ all the airs
From that (10)________________ nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And (11)________ you (12)__________ detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in (13)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (14)________ model of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I (15)________ what is (16)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (17)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (18)________ learnt
What progress has been made in (19)____________ gunnery
When I (20)________ (21)________ of (22)______________ 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 (23)__________________ of the century
But still, in (24)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (25)________ 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 (26)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (27)______________ 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 (28)________ a horse!
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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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