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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 (2)____________ historical
From (3)________________ to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very 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 square of the hypotenuse
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I'm (4)________ good at integral and (5)________________________ calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in (6)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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I know our (7)____________ history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer (8)________ acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I (9)__________ in elegiacs all the (10)____________ of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can (11)________ undoubted
Raphaels from (12)____________ Dows and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of (13)__________ I've heard the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And whistle all the airs
From that infernal (14)________________ Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing (15)________ 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 (16)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such (17)______________ as sorties
And surprises I'm (18)________ wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I (19)________ more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (20)________ 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 plucky and adventury
Has (21)________ been brought down
To the (22)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (23)____________ 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 (24)________ 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 (25)________ learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a (26)____________ in a nunnery
In short, (27)________ 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 only (28)________ brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (29)________ model of a modern Major-General!
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