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 know the kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in (1)__________ categorical
I'm (2)________ well acquainted, too, (3)________ matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the (4)____________ 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 (5)____________________ names of beings animalculous
In short, in (6)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (7)__________ of a modern Major-General
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I (8)________ our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a (9)____________ 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 whistle all the airs
From that infernal (10)________________ Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing (11)________ in Babylonic 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 what 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 meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (13)________________ has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a (14)____________ in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (15)____________________ of (16)__________________ strategy
(Oh, that's a (17)________ 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 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
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I know (19)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (20)________ 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 meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (21)________ 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 better Major-General has (22)__________ (23)________ a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (24)________ (25)________ brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (26)______________ 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 know the kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in (1)__________ categorical
I'm (2)________ well acquainted, too, (3)________ matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the (4)____________ 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 (5)____________________ names of beings animalculous
In short, in (6)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (7)__________ of a modern Major-General
...
I (8)________ our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer hard acrostics, I've a (9)____________ 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 whistle all the airs
From that infernal (10)________________ Pinafore
...
Then I can write a washing (11)________ in Babylonic 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
...
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 affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (13)________________ has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a (14)____________ in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (15)____________________ of (16)__________________ strategy
(Oh, that's a (17)________ 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 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
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I know (19)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (20)________ 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 meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (21)________ 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 better Major-General has (22)__________ (23)________ a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (24)________ (25)________ brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (26)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
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