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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 (1)________ the kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial (2)______________ I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With (3)________ cheerful facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at (4)________________ and differential calculus
I (5)________ the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (6)____________ 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 (7)________________ all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard (8)________ and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of which I've (9)__________ the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And whistle all the airs
From that (10)________________ nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a (11)______________ (12)________ in (13)__________________ 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 (14)________ is (15)__________ 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 been made in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (16)____________________ of elemental strategy
(Oh, that's a (17)________ 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 (18)________ 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 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 (19)________ wary at
And when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (20)________ learnt
What (21)________________ has been made in (22)____________ gunnery
When I know more of (23)______________ than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of (24)__________________ strategy
You'll say a better 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 modern Major-General!
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Answers:
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