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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 (2)________ the (3)__________ of England
And I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, (4)________ matters mathematical
I (5)____________________ equations, both the simple and quadratical
About (6)________________ theorem I'm teeming with 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 matters 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 (7)____________ hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the (8)____________ of Heliogabalus
In conics I can (9)__________ (10)__________________________ parabolous
I can (11)________ 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 (12)________________ Pinafore
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Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic 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 what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle (13)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And when I (14)________ precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in modern gunnery
When I know (15)________ of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of (16)__________________ strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has (17)__________ sat a-gee
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For my military 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 modern Major-General
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(One (18)________ time?!)
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In fact
When I know what is (19)__________ by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (20)__________ a Mauser rifle (21)________ a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (22)__________________ 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 (23)________ more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (24)________ I've a smattering of (25)__________________ strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has never (26)________ a horse!
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For my military 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 modern Major-General!
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Answers:
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