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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 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 (3)________ good 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 (4)________ our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer (5)________ acrostics, I've a (6)____________ taste for paradox
I quote in (7)________________ all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels (8)________ Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I know the (9)________________ 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 (10)________________ Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in (11)__________________ cuneiform
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in (12)______________ 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 (13)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (14)__________ a Mauser (15)__________ from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is (16)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a (17)____________ 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 (18)____________ 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 model of a modern Major-General
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(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I (19)________ 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 (20)________ I (21)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (22)________ learnt
What progress has (23)________ made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (24)______________ than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has (25)__________ 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 (27)________ model of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
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