Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan
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I am the (1)________ model of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings of England
And I quote the (2)____________ historical
From (3)________________ to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many (4)________________ facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very (5)________ at integral and differential calculus
I (6)________ the (7)____________________ 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 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 that infernal nonsense Pinafore
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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 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 (8)__________________ I'm more wary at
And (9)________ I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (10)________ learnt
What progress has been made in (11)____________ gunnery
When I know more of tactics (12)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
(Oh, that's a (13)________ one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a-gee
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For my (14)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (15)________ been (16)______________ down
To the (17)__________________ of the century
But still, in (18)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (19)________ model of a modern Major-General
...
(One (20)________ time?!)
...
In fact
When I know what is meant 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 made in (23)____________ gunnery
When I know (24)________ of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (25)____________________ of (26)__________________ strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has (27)__________ rode a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the (28)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (29)________ model of a modern Major-General!
...
I am the (1)________ model of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings of England
And I quote the (2)____________ historical
From (3)________________ to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many (4)________________ facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
...
I'm very (5)________ at integral and differential calculus
I (6)________ the (7)____________________ names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
I know 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 that infernal 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 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 (8)__________________ I'm more wary at
And (9)________ I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (10)________ learnt
What progress has been made in (11)____________ gunnery
When I know more of tactics (12)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
(Oh, that's a (13)________ one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a-gee
...
For my (14)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (15)________ been (16)______________ down
To the (17)__________________ of the century
But still, in (18)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (19)________ model of a modern Major-General
...
(One (20)________ time?!)
...
In fact
When I know what is meant 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 made in (23)____________ gunnery
When I know (24)________ of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (25)____________________ of (26)__________________ strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has (27)__________ rode a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the (28)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (29)________ model of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
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