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Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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I am the (1)________ 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 order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the (2)____________ and quadratical
About (3)________________ theorem I'm teeming (4)________ 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 (5)________ at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (6)________ (7)__________ of a (8)____________ Major-General
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I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I (9)____________ hard acrostics, I've a pretty 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 (10)________ 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 (11)________________ Pinafore
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Then I can (12)__________ 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 (13)________ model of a (14)____________ Major-General
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In fact
When I (15)________ what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle (16)________ a javelin
When (17)________ affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is (18)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (19)______________ than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of (20)__________________ 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 plucky and adventury
Has (21)________ been (22)______________ down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (23)________ model of a modern Major-General
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(One more time?!)
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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 (24)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is (25)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know (26)________ 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 never rode a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (27)________ (28)________ brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (29)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
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