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