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, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm (2)______________ with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many (3)________________ facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus
I know the (4)____________________ 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 (5)________ 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 (6)__________________________ parabolous
I can (7)________ undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I know the (8)________________ 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 (9)________ (10)________________ nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing (11)________ in Babylonic 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 (12)________ at sight a Mauser rifle (13)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more (14)________ at
And (15)________ I (16)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has (17)________ made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a (18)____________ 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
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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 (19)____________ Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I know what is (20)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (21)__________ from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises 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 modern gunnery
When I know (24)________ 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 rode a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only (26)________ (27)______________ down
To the (28)__________________ 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 know the kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm (1)________ well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm (2)______________ with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many (3)________________ facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
...
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus
I know the (4)____________________ names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
I (5)________ 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 (6)__________________________ parabolous
I can (7)________ undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I know the (8)________________ 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 (9)________ (10)________________ nonsense Pinafore
...
Then I can write a washing (11)________ in Babylonic 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
...
In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (12)________ at sight a Mauser rifle (13)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more (14)________ at
And (15)________ I (16)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has (17)________ made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a (18)____________ 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 (19)____________ Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I know what is (20)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (21)__________ from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises 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 modern gunnery
When I know (24)________ 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 rode a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only (26)________ (27)______________ down
To the (28)__________________ 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) teeming(3) cheerful(4) scientific(5) know(6) peculiarities(7) tell(8) croaking(9) that(10) infernal(11) bill(12) tell(13) from(14) wary(15) when(16) know(17) been(18) novice(19) modern(20) meant(21) rifle(22) know(23) made(24) more(25) when(26) been(27) brought(28) beginning