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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 (1)______________________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings of England
And I (2)__________ the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, (3)________ the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (4)________ cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (5)________ (6)__________ of a modern Major-General
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I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I (7)____________ hard 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 (8)____________ 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
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (10)__________ (11)____________ of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in (12)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I know (13)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (14)________ at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (15)__________________ I'm (16)________ wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (17)________________ has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (18)________ I've a (19)____________________ 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 only been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (20)________ 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 tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such (21)______________ as sorties
And surprises I'm more (22)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in (23)____________ gunnery
When I (24)________ more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (25)________ I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a (26)____________ Major-General has never rode a horse!
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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 (27)____________ Major-General!
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Answers:
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