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 (1)__________ of England
And I quote the fights historical
From (2)________________ to Waterloo, in (3)__________ categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, (4)________ matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the (5)____________ and quadratical
About binomial (6)______________ I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many (7)________________ facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
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I'm (8)________ good at integral and differential calculus
I (9)________ the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (10)____________ Major-General
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I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer (11)________ acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I (12)__________ in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In (13)____________ I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from (14)____________ (15)________ 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 (16)______________ all the airs
From that infernal (17)________________ Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (18)__________ 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 (19)________ what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (20)__________ 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 been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics (21)________ 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 (22)____________ 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 (23)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (24)____________ Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (25)__________ from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I (26)________ precisely
What is (27)__________ 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 (28)____________ Major-General has never rode a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (29)______________ 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 (1)__________ of England
And I quote the fights historical
From (2)________________ to Waterloo, in (3)__________ categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, (4)________ matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the (5)____________ and quadratical
About binomial (6)______________ I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many (7)________________ facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
...
I'm (8)________ good at integral and differential calculus
I (9)________ the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (10)____________ Major-General
...
I know our mythic history
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
I answer (11)________ acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I (12)__________ in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In (13)____________ I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from (14)____________ (15)________ 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 (16)______________ all the airs
From that infernal (17)________________ Pinafore
...
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (18)__________ 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 (19)________ what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (20)__________ 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 been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics (21)________ 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 (22)____________ Major-General has never sat a-gee
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the (23)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (24)____________ Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (25)__________ from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I (26)________ precisely
What is (27)__________ 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 (28)____________ Major-General has never rode a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (29)______________ 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:
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