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 know the kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very (2)________ acquainted, too, (3)________ matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming (4)________ 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 good at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of (5)____________ 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 (7)__________ for paradox
I (8)__________ in (9)________________ all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In (10)____________ I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from (11)____________ Dows and Zoffanies
I know the (12)________________ 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 nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (13)__________ (14)____________ 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 (15)__________ a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (16)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I (17)________ precisely
What is (18)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know (19)________ 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
...
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
...
(One (20)________ time?!)
...
In fact
When I know (21)________ 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 (24)__________ 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, (25)________ I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never (26)________ a horse!
...
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 (27)________ model of a modern Major-General!
...
I am the (1)________ 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 (2)________ acquainted, too, (3)________ matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming (4)________ a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
...
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of (5)____________ animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I (6)____________ hard acrostics, I've a pretty (7)__________ for paradox
I (8)__________ in (9)________________ all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In (10)____________ I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from (11)____________ Dows and Zoffanies
I know the (12)________________ 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 nonsense Pinafore
...
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (13)__________ (14)____________ of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (15)__________ a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (16)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I (17)________ precisely
What is (18)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know (19)________ 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
...
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
...
(One (20)________ time?!)
...
In fact
When I know (21)________ 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 (24)__________ 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, (25)________ I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never (26)________ a horse!
...
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 (27)________ model of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
(1) very(2) well(3) with(4) with(5) beings(6) answer(7) taste(8) quote(9) elegiacs(10) conics(11) Gerard(12) croaking(13) every(14) detail(15) sight(16) surprises(17) know(18) meant(19) more(20) more(21) what(22) Mauser(23) wary(24) meant(25) when(26) rode(27) very