Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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I am the very (1)__________ 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 very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming (2)________ a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many cheerful facts
About the (3)____________ of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at integral and (4)________________________ calculus
I (5)________ 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 mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty (6)__________ 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 (7)________________ chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of (8)__________ I've heard the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And whistle all the airs
From that (9)________________ nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing (10)________ in Babylonic cuneiform
And (11)________ you (12)__________ 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 (13)______________ as sorties
And surprises I'm more (14)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is (15)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (16)________ in modern gunnery
When I know more of (17)______________ than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of (18)__________________ 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 (19)________________ knowledge
Though I'm (20)____________ 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 meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such (21)______________ 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 (22)________ made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (23)______________ (24)________ 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!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (26)________ been (27)______________ down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (28)________ model of a modern Major-General!
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