The Pirates of Penzance (or, The Slave of Duty), Act I: I am the very model of a modern Major-General (Major-General, Girls, Pir - Sir Malcolm Sargent.mp3
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The Pirates of Penzance (or, The Slave of Duty), Act I: I am the very model of a modern Major-General (Major-General, Girls, Pir - Sir Malcolm Sargent.mp3
[00:14.320]I am the very model of a modern Major-General,[00:16.540]I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,[00:18.750]I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical,[00:21.220]From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;[00:23.400]I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical,[00:26.890]I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,[00:29.430]About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news---[00:35.510]With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.[00:38.350][00:47.790]I'm very good at integral and differential calculus,[00:50.230]I know the scientific names of beings animalculous;[00:52.680]In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,[00:55.260]I am the very model of a modern Major-General.[00:57.540][01:05.050]I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's,[01:07.440]I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,[01:09.860]I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,[01:12.760]In conics I can floor peculiarities parablous.[01:16.170]I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,[01:19.080]I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes,[01:21.810]And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.[01:25.670][01:41.590]Then I can write a washing bill in Balylonic cuneiform,[01:44.190]And tell you every detail of Caractacus's uniform;[01:46.630]In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,[01:49.200]I am the very model of a modern Major-General.[01:51.490][01:59.830]In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",[02:03.270]When I can tell at sight a chassep?t rifle from a javelin,[02:06.450]When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,[02:09.950]And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",[02:14.240]When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,[02:17.490]When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery:[02:20.940]In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy,[02:31.400]You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee---[02:38.180][02:43.180]For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,[02:45.840]Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;[02:48.380]But still in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,[02:50.860]I am the very model of a modern Major-General.