Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan
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I am the (1)________ model of a modern Major-General
I've (2)______________________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I (3)________ 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 (4)____________ and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (5)________ 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 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 (7)__________ in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from (8)____________ Dows and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of (9)__________ 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 (10)________ in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every (11)____________ 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 (12)________ what is (13)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a (14)____________ rifle (15)________ 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 made in modern gunnery
When I (16)________ more of (17)______________ (18)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, when 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 (19)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only (20)________ brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I (21)________ what is (22)__________ 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 (23)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (24)________ in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a (25)____________ in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has (26)__________ (27)________ a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (28)________ been brought down
To the (29)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
...
I am the (1)________ model of a modern Major-General
I've (2)______________________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I (3)________ 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 (4)____________ and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (5)________ 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 modern 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 (7)__________ in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from (8)____________ Dows and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of (9)__________ 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 (10)________ in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every (11)____________ of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
In fact
When I (12)________ what is (13)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a (14)____________ rifle (15)________ 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 made in modern gunnery
When I (16)________ more of (17)______________ (18)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, when 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 (19)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only (20)________ brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I (21)________ what is (22)__________ 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 (23)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (24)________ in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a (25)____________ in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has (26)__________ (27)________ a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (28)________ been brought down
To the (29)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
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