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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 (1)______________________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the (2)__________ of England
And I quote the (3)____________ historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very (4)________ acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming (5)________ a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many (6)________________ facts
About the (7)____________ of the hypotenuse
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I'm (8)________ good at integral and differential calculus
I (9)________ the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (10)____________ 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 pretty 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 (11)________ the (12)________________ chorus
From The (13)__________ 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 (14)________________ (15)________________ Pinafore
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Then I can write a (16)______________ bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (17)________ model of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I know (18)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle (19)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I (20)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I (21)________ 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 (22)____________ Major-General has (23)__________ 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 know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (24)__________ a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When (25)________ affairs as sorties
And (26)__________________ I'm (27)________ wary at
And (28)________ 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 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 (29)______________ 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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Answers:
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