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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 (1)________________ to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters 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 (2)________________________ calculus
I know the (3)____________________ (4)__________ 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 (5)________________ all the (6)____________ of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can (7)________ undoubted
Raphaels (8)________ Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I (9)________ the croaking chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of (10)__________ I've heard the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And whistle all the airs
From (11)________ (12)________________ nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a (13)______________ 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 (15)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (16)__________ a (17)____________ rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more (18)________ 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 (19)________ 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 (20)____________ Major-General has never sat a-gee
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For my (21)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the (22)__________________ 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 Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (23)________ learnt
What progress has (24)________ 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 never rode a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (25)______________ down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (26)__________ of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
(1) Marathon(2) differential(3) scientific(4) names(5) elegiacs(6) crimes(7) tell(8) from(9) know(10) which(11) that(12) infernal(13) washing(14) matters(15) meant(16) sight(17) Mauser(18) wary(19) know(20) better(21) military(22) beginning(23) have(24) been(25) brought(26) model