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No. 13: SONG (Major-General & Chorus)
"I am the very model of a modern Major-General"
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I am the very 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 teeming with a lot o’ news – With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse. |
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With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse, With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse, With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypoten- potenuse. |
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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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In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, He is 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 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, And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore. |
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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 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 short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, He is 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 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 sat a gee. |
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You’ll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee, You’ll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee, You’ll say a better Major-General has never sat a, 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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But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, He is the very model of a modern Major-General. |
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