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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 (1)________________ to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm (2)________ well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the (3)____________ 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 (5)________ 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 know our (6)____________ history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer (7)________ acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I (8)__________ 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 croaking 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 (9)__________ a washing bill in (10)__________________ cuneiform
And tell 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 from a javelin
When such (11)______________ as sorties
And (12)__________________ I'm (13)________ wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (14)________ in (15)____________ gunnery
When I know more of tactics (16)________ 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 (17)__________ sat a-gee
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For my (18)________________ 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 (19)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (20)__________ a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (21)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I (22)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (23)________ in (24)____________ gunnery
When I know more of tactics (25)________ a (26)____________ 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 brought down
To the (27)__________________ of the century
But still, in (28)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (29)____________ Major-General!
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Answers:
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