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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 (1)________ well acquainted, too, (2)________ 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 square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very (4)________ at (5)________________ and (6)________________________ calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in (7)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (8)__________ 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 pretty taste for paradox
I quote in (9)________________ all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In (10)____________ 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 (11)__________ the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And (12)______________ all the airs
From that infernal (13)________________ Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (14)__________ (15)____________ 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 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 (16)__________________ I'm more wary at
And (17)________ 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 (18)______________ 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 (19)____________ 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 know (20)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (21)__________ 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 (24)________ learnt
What progress has been (25)________ 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 (26)____________ Major-General has (27)__________ rode a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm (28)____________ 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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Answers:
(1) very(2) with(3) both(4) good(5) integral(6) differential(7) matters(8) model(9) elegiacs(10) conics(11) heard(12) whistle(13) nonsense(14) every(15) detail(16) surprises(17) when(18) tactics(19) better(20) what(21) sight(22) Mauser(23) wary(24) have(25) made(26) better(27) never(28) plucky