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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 (1)________________ to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial (2)______________ I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (3)________ cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at integral and (4)________________________ calculus
I (5)________ the scientific (6)__________ of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (7)____________ Major-General
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I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer (8)________ acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard (9)________ and Zoffanies
I (10)________ 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 that infernal nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (12)__________ detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (13)________ 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 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 know more of tactics (14)________ 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 (15)__________ sat a-gee
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (16)______________ 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 (17)________ time?!)
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In fact
When I (18)________ (19)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (20)________ at sight a Mauser (21)__________ from a javelin
When (22)________ (23)______________ 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 (24)________ made in (25)____________ 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 (26)__________ rode a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only (27)________ 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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Answers:
(1) Marathon(2) theorem(3) many(4) differential(5) know(6) names(7) modern(8) hard(9) Dows(10) know(11) heard(12) every(13) very(14) than(15) never(16) brought(17) more(18) know(19) what(20) tell(21) rifle(22) such(23) affairs(24) been(25) modern(26) never(27) been