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 theorem I'm teeming (1)________ a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (2)________ cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at (3)________________ and differential calculus
I know the (4)____________________ (5)__________ 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 peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard (6)________ and Zoffanies
I (7)________ 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 (8)________ in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in (9)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I (10)________ 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 (11)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (12)________________ has been made in (13)____________ gunnery
When I know more of (14)______________ (15)________ 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 (16)____________ Major-General has never sat a-gee
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (17)______________ down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (18)________ model of a modern Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I know (19)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (20)__________ from a javelin
When such (21)______________ as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I (22)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (23)________ I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never (24)________ a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only 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!
...
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 theorem I'm teeming (1)________ a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (2)________ cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
...
I'm very good at (3)________________ and differential calculus
I know the (4)____________________ (5)__________ of beings animalculous
In short, in matters 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 pretty taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard (6)________ and Zoffanies
I (7)________ 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
...
Then I can write a washing (8)________ in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in (9)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
In fact
When I (10)________ 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 (11)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (12)________________ has been made in (13)____________ gunnery
When I know more of (14)______________ (15)________ 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 (16)____________ Major-General has never sat a-gee
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (17)______________ down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (18)________ model of a modern Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I know (19)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (20)__________ from a javelin
When such (21)______________ as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I (22)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (23)________ I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never (24)________ a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only 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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