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 (2)____________________ 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 cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at integral and (3)________________________ calculus
I (4)________ the (5)____________________ (6)__________ 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 (7)____________ I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I know the (8)________________ chorus
From The (9)__________ 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 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 (10)________ (11)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (12)__________ 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 (13)________ learnt
What progress has (14)________ made in modern gunnery
When I know (15)________ of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (16)________ I've a (17)____________________ 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 (19)____________ and adventury
Has (20)________ been brought down
To the (21)__________________ 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 know what is (22)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle (23)________ a javelin
When (24)________ (25)______________ as sorties
And (26)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is (27)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics (28)________ 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 (29)________________ 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!
...
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 (2)____________________ 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 cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
...
I'm very good at integral and (3)________________________ calculus
I (4)________ the (5)____________________ (6)__________ 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 pretty taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In (7)____________ I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I know the (8)________________ chorus
From The (9)__________ 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 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
...
In fact
When I (10)________ (11)________ is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (12)__________ 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 (13)________ learnt
What progress has (14)________ made in modern gunnery
When I know (15)________ of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (16)________ I've a (17)____________________ of (18)__________________ strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a-gee
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm (19)____________ and adventury
Has (20)________ been brought down
To the (21)__________________ 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 know what is (22)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle (23)________ a javelin
When (24)________ (25)______________ as sorties
And (26)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I know precisely
What is (27)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics (28)________ 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 (29)________________ 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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Answers:
(1) well(2) understand(3) differential(4) know(5) scientific(6) names(7) conics(8) croaking(9) Frogs(10) know(11) what(12) sight(13) have(14) been(15) more(16) when(17) smattering(18) elemental(19) plucky(20) only(21) beginning(22) meant(23) from(24) such(25) affairs(26) surprises(27) meant(28) than(29) military