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 kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very (2)________ acquainted, too, (3)________ matters mathematical
I understand equations, (4)________ the simple and quadratical
About (5)________________ 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 (6)________________________ calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (7)____________ 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 (8)________________ 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 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 matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (9)________ 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 (10)__________ 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 (11)________________ has been (12)________ in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (13)________ 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 (14)____________ and adventury
Has (15)________ been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (16)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I know (17)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (18)__________ from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (19)__________________ I'm more (20)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is (21)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I (22)________ more of tactics than a (23)____________ in a nunnery
In short, (24)________ I've a (25)____________________ of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never (26)________ a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the (27)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (28)__________ 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 kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very (2)________ acquainted, too, (3)________ matters mathematical
I understand equations, (4)________ the simple and quadratical
About (5)________________ 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 (6)________________________ calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (7)____________ 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 (8)________________ 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 nonsense Pinafore
...
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (9)________ 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 (10)__________ 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 (11)________________ has been (12)________ in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (13)________ 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 (14)____________ and adventury
Has (15)________ been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (16)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I know (17)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (18)__________ from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (19)__________________ I'm more (20)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is (21)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I (22)________ more of tactics than a (23)____________ in a nunnery
In short, (24)________ I've a (25)____________________ of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never (26)________ a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the (27)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (28)__________ of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
(1) know(2) well(3) with(4) both(5) binomial(6) differential(7) modern(8) elegiacs(9) very(10) rifle(11) progress(12) made(13) when(14) plucky(15) only(16) matters(17) what(18) rifle(19) surprises(20) wary(21) meant(22) know(23) novice(24) when(25) smattering(26) rode(27) beginning(28) model