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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 (1)__________ of England
And I quote the (2)____________ 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 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 (3)________ at integral and differential calculus
I know 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 (4)____________ taste for paradox
I quote in (5)________________ all the (6)____________ 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 (7)________________ nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can (8)__________ 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 (10)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (11)________ at (12)__________ a (13)____________ rifle from a javelin
When such (14)______________ as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is (15)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has (16)________ made in (17)____________ gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice 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 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 (18)__________ of a (19)____________ Major-General
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(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I know (20)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (21)__________ a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such (22)______________ 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 (23)________ in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (24)________ 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 (25)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the (26)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (27)________ model of a (28)____________ Major-General!
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Answers:
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