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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 Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very (1)________ acquainted, too, with 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 (3)________ good at integral and differential calculus
I know the (4)____________________ 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 quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels (5)________ (6)____________ Dows and Zoffanies
I know the croaking 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 (7)______________ all the airs
From that infernal nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in (8)__________________ cuneiform
And tell you every (9)____________ 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 (10)________ what is (11)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a (12)____________ rifle (13)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more (14)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (15)________ learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics (16)________ 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 (17)________________ 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 (18)__________ of a (19)____________ Major-General
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(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I (20)________ what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (21)________ at sight a Mauser rifle (22)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is (23)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (24)________ in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics (25)________ 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 (28)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (29)__________ of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
(1) well(2) binomial(3) very(4) scientific(5) from(6) Gerard(7) whistle(8) Babylonic(9) detail(10) know(11) meant(12) Mauser(13) from(14) wary(15) have(16) than(17) military(18) model(19) modern(20) know(21) tell(22) from(23) meant(24) made(25) than(26) never(27) been(28) beginning(29) model