《I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General》歌词

[00:00:00] I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General - The Gilbert

[00:00:16] I am the very model of a modern major general

[00:00:18] I've information vegetable animal and mineral

[00:00:20] I know the kings of england and I quote the fights historical

[00:00:22] From marathon to waterloo in order categorical

[00:00:25] I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical

[00:00:28] I understand equations both the simple and quadratical

[00:00:30] About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news

[00:00:36] With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse

[00:00:39] With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse

[00:00:41] With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse

[00:00:43] With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse

[00:00:48] I'm very good at integral and differential calculus

[00:00:51] I know the scientific names of beings animalculous

[00:00:53] In short in matters vegetable animal and mineral

[00:00:55] I am the very model of a modern major general

[00:00:58] In short in matters vegetable animal and mineral

[00:00:59] I am the very model of a modern major general

[00:01:05] I know our mythic history king arthur's and sir caradoc's

[00:01:07] I answer hard acrostics I've a pretty taste for paradox

[00:01:09] I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of heliogabalus

[00:01:11] In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous

[00:01:15] I can tell undoubted raphaels from gerard dows and zoffanies

[00:01:17] I know the croaking from the frogs of aristophanes

[00:01:19] Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore

[00:01:23] Din afore din afore din afore

[00:01:26] And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense pinafore

[00:01:28] And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense pinafore

[00:01:31] And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense pinafore

[00:01:33] And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense pinafore

[00:01:38] Then I can write a washing bill in babylonic cuneiform

[00:01:40] And tell you ev'ry detail of caractacus's uniform

[00:01:42] In short in matters vegetable animal and mineral

[00:01:44] I am the very model of a modern major general

[00:01:47] In short in matters vegetable animal and mineral

[00:01:48] I am the very model of a modern major general

[00:01:56] In fact when I know what is meant by mamelon and raveling

[00:01:59] When I can tell at sight a mauser rifle from a javelin

[00:02:02] When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at

[00:02:06] And when I know precisely what is meant by commissariat

[00:02:09] When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery

[00:02:12] When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery

[00:02:15] In short when I've a smattering of elemental strategy

[00:02:19] Strategy strategy strategy strategy strategy strategy

[00:02:24] You'll say a better major general has never sat a gee

[00:02:26] You'll say a better major general has never sat a gee

[00:02:29] You'll say a better major general has never sat a gee

[00:02:31] You'll say a better major general has never sat a gee

[00:02:35] For my military knowledge though I'm plucky and adventury

[00:02:37] Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century

[00:02:39] But still in matters vegetable animal and mineral

[00:02:40] I am the very model of a modern major general

[00:02:43] For my military knowledge though I'm plucky and adventury

[00:02:43] Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century

[00:02:44] But still in matters vegetable animal and mineral

[00:02:45] I am the very model of a modern major general