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 fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in (2)__________ categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, (3)________ matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming (4)________ 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 integral and differential calculus
I (5)________ the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (6)____________ Major-General
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I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer (7)________ 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 (8)______________ all the airs
From that infernal nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a (9)______________ bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every (10)____________ of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (11)__________ 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 (13)__________ a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I (14)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (15)________________ has been (16)________ in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice 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 (17)________ (18)______________ down
To the (19)__________________ of the century
But still, in (20)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model 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 (21)________ affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And (22)________ I (23)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (24)______________ than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never (25)________ a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (26)________ 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!
...
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 fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in (2)__________ categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, (3)________ matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming (4)________ 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 integral and differential calculus
I (5)________ the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (6)____________ Major-General
...
I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer (7)________ 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 (8)______________ all the airs
From that infernal nonsense Pinafore
...
Then I can write a (9)______________ bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every (10)____________ of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (11)__________ of a modern Major-General
...
In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (12)________ at (13)__________ a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I (14)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (15)________________ has been (16)________ in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice 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 (17)________ (18)______________ down
To the (19)__________________ of the century
But still, in (20)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model 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 (21)________ affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And (22)________ I (23)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (24)______________ than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never (25)________ a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (26)________ 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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Answers:
(1) very(2) order(3) with(4) with(5) know(6) modern(7) hard(8) whistle(9) washing(10) detail(11) model(12) tell(13) sight(14) know(15) progress(16) made(17) been(18) brought(19) beginning(20) matters(21) such(22) when(23) know(24) tactics(25) rode(26) only