I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General歌詞

[00:13.541]I am the very model of a modern Major-General
[00:16.041]I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral
[00:18.233]I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
[00:20.532]From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical
[00:23.163]I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical
[00:25.523]I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical
[00:27.868]About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news
[00:32.657]With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
[00:35.342]With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
[00:37.608]With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
[00:39.888]With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotepotenuse
[00:44.294]I'm very good at integral and differential calculus
[00:46.726]I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
[00:49.090]In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
[00:51.323]I am the very model of a modern Major-General
[00:53.542]In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
[00:55.015]He is the very model of a modern Major-General
[01:00.450]I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
[01:02.764]I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox
[01:05.053]I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus
[01:07.411]In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
[01:10.117]I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies
[01:12.705]I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes
[01:14.997]Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore
[01:20.555]And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore
[01:23.603]And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore
[01:25.685]And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore
[01:27.996]And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinapinafore
[01:32.251]Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
[01:34.819]And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform
[01:37.074]In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
[01:39.450]I am the very model of a modern Major-General
[01:41.700]In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
[01:43.904]He is the very model of a modern Major-General
[01:49.600]In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin"
[01:52.814]When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin
[01:56.068]When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at
[01:59.566]And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat"
[02:03.454]When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery
[02:06.373]When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
[02:09.634]In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy
[02:18.965]You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee
[02:21.970]You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee
[02:24.190]You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a gee
[02:26.418]You'll say a better Major-General had never sat a sat a gee
[02:30.593]For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury
[02:33.238]Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century
[02:35.469]But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
[02:37.672]I am the very model of a modern Major-General
[02:39.945]But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
[02:42.140]He is the very model of a modern Major-General
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