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

[00:00:12] I am the very model of a modern Major General

[00:00:15] I've information vegetable animal and mineral

[00:00:17] I know the kings of England and I quote the fights historical

[00:00:19] From Marathon to Waterloo in order categorical a

[00:00:22] I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical

[00:00:24] I understand equations both the simple and quadratical

[00:00:26] About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news

[00:00:31] With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse

[00:00:43] I'm very good at integral and differential calculus

[00:00:45] I know the scientific names of beings animalculous：

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

[00:00:49] I am the very model of a modern Major General

[00:00:58] I know our mythic history King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's

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

[00:01:03] I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus

[00:01:05] In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous

[00:01:08] I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies

[00:01:11] I know the croaking chorus from The Frogs of Aristophanes

[00:01:13] Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore

[00:01:17] And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore

[00:01:31] Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform

[00:01:33] And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform：c

[00:01:35] In short in matters vegetable animal and mineral

[00:01:38] I am the very model of a modern Major General

[00:01:42] In fact when I know what is meant by mamelon and ravelin

[00:01:50] When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin d

[00:01:54] When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at

[00:01:57] And when I know precisely what is meant by commissariat

[00:02:01] When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery

[00:02:04] When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery

[00:02:07] In short when I've a smattering of elemental strategy

[00:02:13] You'll say a better Major General has never sat a gee e

[00:02:27] For my military knowledge though I'm plucky and adventury

[00:02:30] Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century

[00:02:32] But still in matters vegetable animal and mineral

[00:02:34] I am the very model of a modern Major General