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 (1)__________ 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 scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (3)__________ of a modern Major-General
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I (4)________ our (5)____________ history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty (6)__________ for paradox
I (7)__________ in (8)________________ all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can (9)__________ (10)__________________________ parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from (11)____________ (12)________ and Zoffanies
I know 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 bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (13)__________ 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 sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm (14)________ 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 (15)________ of tactics than a (16)____________ 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 (17)____________ and adventury
Has (18)________ been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (19)____________ Major-General
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(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I know what is (20)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a (21)____________ rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm (22)________ wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (23)________________ has been (24)________ in modern gunnery
When I (25)________ more of (26)______________ 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 (27)________ 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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