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Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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I am the very model of a (1)____________ Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I (2)________ the kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, (3)________ matters mathematical
I (4)____________________ 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 square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at integral and (5)________________________ calculus
I know the (6)____________________ 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 (7)____________ history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty (8)__________ for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels (9)________ Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of which I've (10)__________ 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 (11)__________________ cuneiform
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (12)________ model of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I know (13)________ 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 (14)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (15)____________________ of elemental strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a (16)____________ Major-General has never sat a-gee
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For my (17)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the (18)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (19)__________ of a modern Major-General
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(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I know (20)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (21)__________ from a javelin
When (22)________ (23)______________ 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 been made in (24)____________ gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (25)____________________ of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has (26)__________ rode a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm (27)____________ and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the (28)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (29)__________ of a modern Major-General!
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