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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 kings of England
And I quote the (3)____________ historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
I (4)____________________ equations, both the simple and quadratical
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
(Hmm, lot of news.... Got it!)
With many (5)________________ facts
About the square of the hypotenuse
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I'm very good at integral and differential calculus
I (6)________ 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 answer (7)________ acrostics, I've a (8)____________ taste for paradox
I quote in elegiacs all the (9)____________ of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
I can (10)________ undoubted
Raphaels from (11)____________ 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 (12)__________________ cuneiform
And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the (13)________ model of a modern Major-General
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In fact
When I (14)________ what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (15)__________ a (16)____________ rifle from a javelin
When such affairs as sorties
And (17)__________________ 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, (18)________ I've a smattering of (19)__________________ strategy
(Oh, that's a hard one, strategy... Got it!)
You'll say a better Major-General has (20)__________ sat a-gee
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (21)______________ 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 more time?!)
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In fact
When I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
When I can tell at (22)__________ a Mauser rifle from a javelin
When (23)________ affairs as sorties
And surprises I'm more wary at
And (24)________ I know precisely
What is meant by "commissariat"
When I have learnt
What progress has been made in (25)____________ gunnery
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, (26)________ I've a smattering of elemental strategy
You'll say a better Major-General has (27)__________ rode a horse!
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For my military knowledge
Though I'm plucky and adventury
Has only been (28)______________ down
To the beginning of the century
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
I am the very (29)__________ of a modern Major-General!
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Answers:
(1) very(2) know(3) fights(4) understand(5) cheerful(6) know(7) hard(8) pretty(9) crimes(10) tell(11) Gerard(12) Babylonic(13) very(14) know(15) sight(16) Mauser(17) surprises(18) when(19) elemental(20) never(21) brought(22) sight(23) such(24) when(25) modern(26) when(27) never(28) brought(29) model