Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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I am the very (1)__________ of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings of England
And I quote the (2)____________ historical
From (3)________________ to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm (4)________ well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, (5)________ 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 (6)____________ of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at (7)________________ and differential calculus
I (8)________ the scientific 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 (9)____________ taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can (10)________ undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I (11)________ the (12)________________ chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of (13)__________ I've heard the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And whistle all the airs
From (14)________ infernal (15)________________ Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every (16)____________ 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 (17)____________ rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (18)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I (19)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (20)________ learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (21)______________ (22)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (23)____________________ 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 very model of a modern Major-General
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(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I (24)________ what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (25)________ at sight a Mauser (26)__________ (27)________ 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 (28)____________ 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 (29)____________ Major-General has never rode a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm (30)____________ 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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