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 know the kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in (2)__________ categorical
I'm (3)________ well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand 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 (4)____________ 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 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 (6)__________ in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels (7)________ Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of which I've (8)__________ the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And (9)______________ 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 very 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 (10)__________ a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When (11)________ affairs as sorties
And (12)__________________ I'm more (13)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has (14)________ made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (15)______________ than a (16)____________ in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (17)____________________ 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 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 (18)__________ of a (19)____________ 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 (20)____________ rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And (21)________ 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 (24)______________ than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (25)____________________ of (26)__________________ strategy
You'll say a (27)____________ Major-General has never rode a horse!
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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 matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (28)____________ Major-General!
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