Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan
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I am the (1)________ 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 (2)________ 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 good at integral and differential calculus
I (4)________ the scientific names of (5)____________ animalculous
In short, in (6)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (7)____________ Major-General
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I (8)________ 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 (9)____________ of Heliogabalus
In conics I can (10)__________ peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from (11)____________ Dows 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 (12)________________ Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every (13)____________ of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (14)__________ of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I (15)________ what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When (16)________ affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (17)________ learnt
What (18)________________ has been made in (19)____________ gunnery
When I (20)________ more of tactics (21)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, (22)________ 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 only been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (23)__________ 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 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 (24)________ learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know (25)________ 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 (27)________ a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (28)______________ down
To the (29)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
...
I am the (1)________ 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 (2)________ a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (3)________ cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
...
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus
I (4)________ the scientific names of (5)____________ animalculous
In short, in (6)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (7)____________ Major-General
...
I (8)________ 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 (9)____________ of Heliogabalus
In conics I can (10)__________ peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from (11)____________ Dows 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 (12)________________ Pinafore
...
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every (13)____________ of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (14)__________ of a modern Major-General
...
In fact
When I (15)________ what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When (16)________ affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (17)________ learnt
What (18)________________ has been made in (19)____________ gunnery
When I (20)________ more of tactics (21)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, (22)________ 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 only been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (23)__________ 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 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 (24)________ learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know (25)________ 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 (27)________ a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (28)______________ down
To the (29)__________________ 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:
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