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Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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I am the (1)________ model of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I (2)________ the kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From (3)________________ to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand 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 (4)________ at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in (5)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (6)________ 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 (7)____________ taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can (8)________ undoubted
Raphaels (9)________ Gerard (10)________ 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 (11)______________ all the airs
From that (12)________________ 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 know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can (13)________ at sight a (14)____________ rifle (15)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more (16)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (17)______________ than 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 military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (18)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (19)________ (20)__________ 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 (21)__________ a Mauser (22)__________ (23)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And (24)________ I (25)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been 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 better Major-General has never rode a horse!
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For my (26)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in (27)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
(1) very(2) know(3) Marathon(4) good(5) matters(6) very(7) pretty(8) tell(9) from(10) Dows(11) whistle(12) infernal(13) tell(14) Mauser(15) from(16) wary(17) tactics(18) matters(19) very(20) model(21) sight(22) rifle(23) from(24) when(25) know(26) military(27) matters