Major-General's Song by Gilbert And Sullivan
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I am the very (1)__________ 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 Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, (2)________ the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming (3)________ 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 differential calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in (4)______________ 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 hard acrostics, I've a pretty 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 (5)________ and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of (6)__________ I've heard the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And whistle all the airs
From that (7)________________ nonsense Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (8)__________ detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (9)____________ Major-General
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In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (10)__________ from a javelin
When such (11)______________ as sorties
And surprises I'm more (12)________ at
And when I (13)________ precisely
What is (14)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (15)________ in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (16)________ I've a smattering of elemental strategy
(Oh, that's a (17)________ one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has (18)__________ sat a-gee
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm (19)____________ and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the (20)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern 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 rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I (21)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (22)________ 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 (23)____________________ of (24)__________________ strategy
You'll say a (25)____________ Major-General has never rode a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only (26)________ brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (27)__________ of a modern Major-General!
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I am the very (1)__________ 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 Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I understand equations, (2)________ the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming (3)________ 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 differential calculus
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
In short, in (4)______________ vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern Major-General
...
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 elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can tell undoubted
Raphaels from Gerard (5)________ and Zoffanies
I know the croaking chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of (6)__________ I've heard the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And whistle all the airs
From that (7)________________ nonsense Pinafore
...
Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (8)__________ detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (9)____________ Major-General
...
In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (10)__________ from a javelin
When such (11)______________ as sorties
And surprises I'm more (12)________ at
And when I (13)________ precisely
What is (14)__________ by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been (15)________ in modern gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (16)________ I've a smattering of elemental strategy
(Oh, that's a (17)________ one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has (18)__________ sat a-gee
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm (19)____________ and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the (20)__________________ of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a modern 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 rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I (21)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (22)________ 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 (23)____________________ of (24)__________________ strategy
You'll say a (25)____________ Major-General has never rode a horse!
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only (26)________ brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (27)__________ of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
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