Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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I am the very 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, (1)________ matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About (2)________________ 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 very good at integral and (3)________________________ calculus
I know the scientific (4)__________ of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (5)________ model of a modern Major-General
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I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I (6)____________ (7)________ acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In (8)____________ I can (9)__________ peculiarities parabolous
I can (10)________ undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of which I've (11)__________ the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And whistle all the airs
From (12)________ infernal (13)________________ 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 sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When (14)________ affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is (15)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (16)________________ has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics (17)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of (18)__________________ 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 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 (19)________ at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more (20)________ at
And (21)________ I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has (22)________ made in modern gunnery
When I (23)________ more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (24)____________________ of (25)__________________ 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 (26)________ (27)________ brought down
To the (28)__________________ 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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