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 (1)________________ (2)______________ I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (3)________ cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very (4)________ at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of (5)____________ 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 Dows and Zoffanies
I (6)________ 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 (7)________________ Pinafore
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Then I can (8)__________ a (9)______________ bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And (10)________ you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in (11)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (12)__________ of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (13)__________ (14)________ a javelin
When such (15)______________ as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And (16)________ 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 tactics (17)________ 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
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (18)________ been brought down
To the (19)__________________ 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 Mauser rifle (20)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more (21)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (22)________ in (23)____________ gunnery
When I know more of (24)______________ (25)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (26)____________________ of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never rode a horse!
...
For my (27)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only (28)________ 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 (1)________________ (2)______________ I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (3)________ cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
...
I'm very (4)________ at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of (5)____________ 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 Dows and Zoffanies
I (6)________ 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 (7)________________ Pinafore
...
Then I can (8)__________ a (9)______________ bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And (10)________ you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in (11)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (12)__________ of a modern Major-General
...
In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (13)__________ (14)________ a javelin
When such (15)______________ as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And (16)________ 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 tactics (17)________ 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
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (18)________ been brought down
To the (19)__________________ 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 Mauser rifle (20)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more (21)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (22)________ in (23)____________ gunnery
When I know more of (24)______________ (25)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (26)____________________ of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never rode a horse!
...
For my (27)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only (28)________ 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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Answers:
(1) binomial(2) theorem(3) many(4) good(5) beings(6) know(7) nonsense(8) write(9) washing(10) tell(11) matters(12) model(13) rifle(14) from(15) affairs(16) when(17) than(18) only(19) beginning(20) from(21) wary(22) made(23) modern(24) tactics(25) than(26) smattering(27) military(28) been