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 (1)________ 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 (2)____________________ equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial (3)______________ 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 beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (5)____________ 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 (6)____________ (7)__________ 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 know the (8)________________ chorus
From The (9)__________ 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 (10)______________ all the airs
From that (11)________________ (12)________________ Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And (13)________ you every detail 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 (14)________ a javelin
When such affairs 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 made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (15)______________ than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of (16)__________________ 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 (17)________ been brought down
To the (18)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
(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 (20)__________ (21)________ a javelin
When such affairs 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 made in (22)____________ gunnery
When I (23)________ more of tactics (24)________ a (25)____________ 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 (28)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (29)________ 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!
...
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I (1)________ 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 (2)____________________ equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial (3)______________ 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 beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (5)____________ Major-General
...
I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a (6)____________ (7)__________ 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 know the (8)________________ chorus
From The (9)__________ 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 (10)______________ all the airs
From that (11)________________ (12)________________ Pinafore
...
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And (13)________ you every detail 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 sight a Mauser rifle (14)________ a javelin
When such affairs 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 made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (15)______________ than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of (16)__________________ 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 (17)________ been brought down
To the (18)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I (19)________ what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (20)__________ (21)________ a javelin
When such affairs 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 made in (22)____________ gunnery
When I (23)________ more of tactics (24)________ a (25)____________ 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!
...
For my (28)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (29)________ 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) know(2) understand(3) theorem(4) with(5) modern(6) pretty(7) taste(8) croaking(9) Frogs(10) whistle(11) infernal(12) nonsense(13) tell(14) from(15) tactics(16) elemental(17) only(18) beginning(19) know(20) rifle(21) from(22) modern(23) know(24) than(25) novice(26) better(27) never(28) military(29) only