Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General

Lyrics I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major-General [From the Pirates of …] – D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, Isidore Godfrey, John Reed, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

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

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

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 parablous
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

Then I can write a washing bill in Balylonic 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

In fact, when I know what is meant by “mamelon” and “ravelin”
When I can tell at sight a chassepôt 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-

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

Written by: W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan
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