Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan
...
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 (1)__________ the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in (2)__________ categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the (3)____________ 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
...
I'm very good at (4)________________ 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 (6)________ our (7)____________ history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty (8)__________ for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the (9)____________ 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 (10)__________ the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And (11)______________ all the airs
From (12)________ (13)________________ nonsense Pinafore
...
Then I can write a washing bill 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 (14)________ what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a (15)____________ rifle from 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 (16)________ more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of (17)__________________ 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 (18)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (19)__________ of a modern 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 rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And (21)________ I (22)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (23)________ in modern gunnery
When I (24)________ more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (25)________ I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a (26)____________ Major-General has never rode a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (27)______________ 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 know the kings of England
And I (1)__________ the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in (2)__________ categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the (3)____________ 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
...
I'm very good at (4)________________ 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 (6)________ our (7)____________ history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty (8)__________ for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the (9)____________ 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 (10)__________ the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And (11)______________ all the airs
From (12)________ (13)________________ nonsense Pinafore
...
Then I can write a washing bill 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 (14)________ what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a (15)____________ rifle from 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 (16)________ more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of (17)__________________ 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 (18)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (19)__________ of a modern 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 rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And (21)________ I (22)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (23)________ in modern gunnery
When I (24)________ more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (25)________ I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a (26)____________ Major-General has never rode a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (27)______________ 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!
...
Answers:
(1) quote(2) order(3) simple(4) integral(5) beings(6) know(7) mythic(8) taste(9) crimes(10) heard(11) whistle(12) that(13) infernal(14) know(15) Mauser(16) know(17) elemental(18) matters(19) model(20) meant(21) when(22) know(23) made(24) know(25) when(26) better(27) brought