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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 order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial (1)______________ I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (2)________ cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at integral and (3)________________________ calculus
I know the (4)____________________ (5)__________ 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 (6)____________ hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the (7)____________ of Heliogabalus
In conics I can (8)__________ (9)__________________________ parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from (10)____________ Dows and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of (11)__________ 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 (12)__________ a (13)______________ bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (14)__________ 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 (15)________ (16)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (17)__________ 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 been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (18)________ I've a smattering of (19)__________________ strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a (20)____________ 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 (21)__________________ 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 (22)____________ rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more (23)________ 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 (24)________ of (25)______________ 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 been brought down
To the beginning 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) theorem(2) many(3) differential(4) scientific(5) names(6) answer(7) crimes(8) floor(9) peculiarities(10) Gerard(11) which(12) write(13) washing(14) every(15) know(16) what(17) sight(18) when(19) elemental(20) better(21) beginning(22) Mauser(23) wary(24) more(25) tactics(26) matters(27) model