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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 (2)________ 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 (3)____________________ equations, both the (4)____________ 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 (5)________________ and differential calculus
I (6)________ the scientific names 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 (7)____________ 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 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 (8)________________ nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill 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 know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a (10)____________ rifle (11)________ 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 have learnt
What progress has been made in (12)____________ gunnery
When I know more of tactics (13)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (14)____________________ of elemental strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has (15)__________ sat a-gee
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only (16)________ brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (17)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (18)________ 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 (19)__________ 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 have learnt
What progress has (20)________ made in (21)____________ gunnery
When I know more of (22)______________ than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has (23)__________ rode a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (24)______________ down
To the (25)__________________ of the century
But still, in (26)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (27)__________ of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
(1) very(2) know(3) understand(4) simple(5) integral(6) know(7) pretty(8) infernal(9) matters(10) Mauser(11) from(12) modern(13) than(14) smattering(15) never(16) been(17) matters(18) very(19) sight(20) been(21) modern(22) tactics(23) never(24) brought(25) beginning(26) matters(27) model