I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General Karaoke - The Pirates of Penzance (1983 film)

This title is a cover version of I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General as made famous by The Pirates of Penzance (1983 film)

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With backing vocals (with or without vocals in the KFN version)

Tempo: variable (around 214 BPM)

In the same key as the original: E♭

Duration: 04:11 - Sample at: 01:25

Release date: 1983
Genres: Soundtracks (TV & Movie), Musicals & Broadway, In English
Original songwriter: Arthur Sullivan, William Schwenck Gilbert

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Lyrics I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General

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

Lot o' news

I've got it

With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse

With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypote-

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

In short in matters vegetable animal and mineral he is 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 parabolous

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

Huh din afore uh

Got it

And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore

And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pina-

Pinafore

Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic 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 short in matters vegetable animal and mineral he is 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 Mauser 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

Oh I'll say

Strategy, strategy, strategy

Oh uh that, that's a hard one isn't it

I've got it

You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee

You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a

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

In short in matters vegetable animal and mineral he is the very model of a modern Major-General

Yes uh presto agitato s'il vous plaît maestro

In fact when I know what is meant by Mamelon and Ravelin

When I can tell at sight a Mauser 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

You'll say a better Major-General has never rode a horse

You'll say a better Major-General has never rode a

Rode a horse

For my military knowledge though

I'm plucky and adventury has only been brought down to the beginning of the century

Still in matters vegetable animal and mineral

I'm the very model of a modern Major-General

In short in matters vegetable animal and mineral he is the very model of a modern Major-General

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I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General Karaoke - The Pirates of Penzance (1983 film)

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