Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan
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I am the very model of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I (1)________ the (2)__________ 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 (3)____________ 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 differential calculus
I know the scientific names of (4)____________ animalculous
In short, in (5)______________ 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 (6)__________________________ parabolous
I can (7)________ undoubted
Raphaels (8)________ 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 (9)________ you every (10)____________ 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 (11)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (12)__________ (13)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm (14)________ (15)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress 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 (17)__________________ 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 (18)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky 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 (19)____________ Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (20)________ 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 (22)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know (23)________ of tactics (24)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never rode a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (25)______________ down
To the (26)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
...
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I (1)________ the (2)__________ 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 (3)____________ 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
...
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of (4)____________ animalculous
In short, in (5)______________ 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 (6)__________________________ parabolous
I can (7)________ undoubted
Raphaels (8)________ 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 (9)________ you every (10)____________ 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 (11)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (12)__________ (13)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm (14)________ (15)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress 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 (17)__________________ strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a-gee
...
For my (18)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky 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 (19)____________ Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (20)________ 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 (22)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know (23)________ of tactics (24)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never rode a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (25)______________ down
To the (26)__________________ 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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Respuestas:
(1) know(2) kings(3) simple(4) beings(5) matters(6) peculiarities(7) tell(8) from(9) tell(10) detail(11) what(12) rifle(13) from(14) more(15) wary(16) made(17) elemental(18) military(19) modern(20) tell(21) affairs(22) meant(23) more(24) than(25) brought(26) beginning