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Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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I am the very (1)__________ of a modern Major-General
I've (2)______________________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I (3)________ the kings of England
And I (4)__________ the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in (5)__________ categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, (6)________ matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the (7)____________ and quadratical
About (8)________________ theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many (9)________________ facts
About the (10)____________ of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of (11)____________ animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (12)________ model of a (13)____________ Major-General
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I know our (14)____________ history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I (15)__________ in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can (16)__________ peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I (17)________ the croaking chorus
From The (18)__________ 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 (19)______________ all the airs
From that (20)________________ nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing (21)________ 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 what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (22)__________ a Mauser rifle (23)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (24)__________________ I'm more wary 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 (25)______________ 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 (26)____________ 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 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 Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (27)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has (28)________ 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 (29)__________ rode a horse!
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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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