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 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 theorem I'm (2)______________ with 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 matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (3)____________ 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 (4)____________ of Heliogabalus
In (5)____________ I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can (6)________ undoubted
Raphaels from (7)____________ Dows and Zoffanies
I know the (8)________________ chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of (9)__________ I've heard the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And whistle all the airs
From that infernal (10)________________ Pinafore
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Then I can write a (11)______________ bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (12)__________ 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 what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (13)__________ from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (14)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I (15)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (16)________ learnt
What progress has been made in (17)____________ gunnery
When I (18)________ more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (19)____________________ of (20)__________________ strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a (21)____________ Major-General has never sat a-gee
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm (22)____________ and adventury
Has (23)________ been (24)______________ down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (25)____________ 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 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!
...
For my (26)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (27)____________ Major-General!
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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 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 theorem I'm (2)______________ with 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 matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (3)____________ 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 (4)____________ of Heliogabalus
In (5)____________ I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can (6)________ undoubted
Raphaels from (7)____________ Dows and Zoffanies
I know the (8)________________ chorus
From The Frogs of Aristophanes
Then I can hum a fugue
Of (9)__________ I've heard the music's din afore
(Ooh, din afore, din afore... Got it!)
And whistle all the airs
From that infernal (10)________________ Pinafore
...
Then I can write a (11)______________ bill in Babylonic cuneiform
And tell you (12)__________ 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 what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser (13)__________ from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (14)__________________ I'm more wary at
And when I (15)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I (16)________ learnt
What progress has been made in (17)____________ gunnery
When I (18)________ more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a (19)____________________ of (20)__________________ strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a (21)____________ Major-General has never sat a-gee
...
For my military knowledge
Though I'm (22)____________ and adventury
Has (23)________ been (24)______________ down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (25)____________ 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 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!
...
For my (26)________________ knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been brought down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very model of a (27)____________ Major-General!
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Answers:
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