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 (1)__________ the (2)____________ historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in (3)__________ categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with (4)______________ mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About (5)________________ 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 (6)________________ and (7)________________________ calculus
I know 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 (8)____________ taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In (9)____________ I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels (10)________ (11)____________ Dows and Zoffanies
I (12)________ 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 whistle all the airs
From that infernal nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing (13)________ in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in (14)______________ 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 Mauser rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And (15)________ I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (16)________ learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know (17)________ of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
(Oh, that's a (18)________ one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has (19)__________ sat a-gee
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (20)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I know (21)________ is (22)__________ 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 (23)________ made in modern 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 (24)____________ Major-General has never rode a horse!
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For my (25)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (26)______________ 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!
...
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 (1)__________ the (2)____________ historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in (3)__________ categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with (4)______________ mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About (5)________________ 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 (6)________________ and (7)________________________ calculus
I know the scientific names 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 (8)____________ taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In (9)____________ I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels (10)________ (11)____________ Dows and Zoffanies
I (12)________ 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 whistle all the airs
From that infernal nonsense Pinafore
...
Then I can write a washing (13)________ in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in (14)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
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 (15)________ I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (16)________ learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know (17)________ of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
(Oh, that's a (18)________ one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has (19)__________ sat a-gee
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (20)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I know (21)________ is (22)__________ 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 (23)________ made in modern 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 (24)____________ Major-General has never rode a horse!
...
For my (25)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (26)______________ 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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