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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 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 (2)________ well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, (3)________ 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 (4)____________ of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific (5)__________ of (6)____________ 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 (7)____________ history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I (8)____________ hard acrostics, I've a pretty (9)__________ for paradox
I (10)__________ in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In (11)____________ I can floor (12)__________________________ parabolous
I can (13)________ undoubted
Raphaels from (14)____________ 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 (15)________ infernal 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 matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (16)____________ 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 (17)________ 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 tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of (18)__________________ strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has (19)__________ sat a-gee
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (20)________ been brought down
To the (21)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (22)____________ Major-General
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(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I know (23)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (24)__________ 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 (25)________ learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I (26)________ 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 never rode a horse!
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For my (27)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (28)______________ down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (29)____________ Major-General!
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