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 (2)____________ historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very (3)________ 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 cheerful facts
About the (4)____________ of the hypotenuse
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I'm very (5)________ at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of (6)____________ animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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I (7)________ our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer (8)________ acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In (9)____________ I can (10)__________ 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 (11)__________ I've (12)__________ 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 (13)______________ 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 (14)______________ as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And (15)________ I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (16)________________ has been made 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 (17)____________ 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 (18)______________ 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 (19)________ (20)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle (21)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm (22)________ wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (23)________ learnt
What (24)________________ has been made 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
You'll say a (25)____________ Major-General has never (26)________ a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (27)______________ down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (28)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (29)__________ of a modern Major-General!
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