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 know the kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From (2)________________ to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I (3)____________________ equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming (4)________ 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 integral and (5)________________________ calculus
I know 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 (7)____________ 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 conics I can (9)__________ peculiarities parabolous
I can (10)________ undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows 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 whistle all the airs
From that infernal nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (11)__________ 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 (12)________ 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 (13)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is (14)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in (15)____________ gunnery
When I know more of tactics (16)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, (17)________ I've a (18)____________________ 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 (19)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (20)______________ down
To the (21)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (22)____________ Major-General
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(One more time?!)
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In fact
When I (23)________ (24)________ is (25)__________ 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 (26)________ made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (27)______________ 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 (28)________ a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (29)________ been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (30)__________ of a modern Major-General!
...
I am the (1)________ model of a modern Major-General
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
I know the kings of England
And I quote the fights historical
From (2)________________ to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I (3)____________________ equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming (4)________ 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 integral and (5)________________________ calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (6)____________ Major-General
...
I know our (7)____________ 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 conics I can (9)__________ peculiarities parabolous
I can (10)________ undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard Dows 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 whistle all the airs
From that infernal nonsense Pinafore
...
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (11)__________ 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 know (12)________ 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 (13)________ at
And when I know precisely
What is (14)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in (15)____________ gunnery
When I know more of tactics (16)________ a novice in a nunnery
In short, (17)________ I've a (18)____________________ of elemental strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a-gee
...
For my (19)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (20)______________ down
To the (21)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (22)____________ Major-General
...
(One more time?!)
...
In fact
When I (23)________ (24)________ is (25)__________ 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 (26)________ made in modern gunnery
When I know more of (27)______________ 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 (28)________ a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has (29)________ been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (30)__________ of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
(1) very(2) Marathon(3) understand(4) with(5) differential(6) modern(7) mythic(8) pretty(9) floor(10) tell(11) every(12) what(13) wary(14) meant(15) modern(16) than(17) when(18) smattering(19) military(20) brought(21) beginning(22) modern(23) know(24) what(25) meant(26) been(27) tactics(28) rode(29) only(30) model