Print

Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

...
I am the (1)________ model of a (2)____________ 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 simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many (3)________________ facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
...
I'm very good at integral and (4)________________________ calculus
I know the (5)____________________ 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 (6)____________ taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the (7)____________ of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels (8)________ Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I know the (9)________________ 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 (10)________ you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (11)________ model of a modern Major-General
...
In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (12)__________ a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such (13)______________ as sorties
And surprises I'm more (14)________ at
And when I (15)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (16)________________ has been made in modern gunnery
When I know (17)________ of tactics than 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 (18)____________ Major-General has never sat a-gee
...
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 modern Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I (19)________ what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (20)________ at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When (21)________ affairs as sorties
And (22)__________________ I'm (23)________ (24)________ 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 know more 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!
...
For my (25)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (26)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
...
Answers:
(1) very(2) modern(3) cheerful(4) differential(5) scientific(6) pretty(7) crimes(8) from(9) croaking(10) tell(11) very(12) sight(13) affairs(14) wary(15) know(16) progress(17) more(18) better(19) know(20) tell(21) such(22) surprises(23) more(24) wary(25) military(26) matters