Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan

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I am the very (1)__________ of a (2)____________ Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings of England
And I (3)__________ the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I (4)____________________ 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 (7)________ good at integral and differential calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in (8)______________ 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 (9)________ acrostics, I've a (10)____________ taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
I (11)________ the croaking chorus
From The (12)__________ 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 (13)________ (14)________________ nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a (15)______________ bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And (16)________ you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (17)____________ Major-General
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In fact
When I (18)________ 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 when I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What (19)________________ has been (20)________ in modern gunnery
When I (21)________ more of (22)______________ 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 (23)____________ Major-General has (24)__________ sat a-gee
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm (25)____________ and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the (26)__________________ 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 (27)________ 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 (28)________ 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 smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never rode a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only (29)________ 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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