[00:16.02]I am the very model of a modern Major General
[00:18.30]I've information vegetable animal and mineral
[00:20.58]I know the kings of England and
[00:21.78]I quote the fights historical
[00:22.92]From marathon to waterloo in order categorical
[00:26.04]I'm very well acquainted too with matters mathematical
[00:28.77]I understand equations both the simple and quadratical
[00:30.57]About binomial theorem I'm teaming with a lot of news
[00:32.13]Oh lot of news
[00:32.52]Yes
[00:32.67]With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
[00:33.96]With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
[00:36.90]With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
[00:38.91]With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
[00:49.53]I'm very good at integral and differential calculus
[00:52.02]I know the scientific names of beings animalculous
[00:54.30]In short in matters vegetable animal and mineral
[00:56.88]I am the very model of a modern Major General
[00:59.07]In short in matters vegetable animal and mineral
[01:01.50]I am the very model of a modern Major General
[01:06.75]I know our mythic history king Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's
[01:09.24]I answer hard acrostics I've a pretty taste for paradox
[01:11.91]I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of heliogabalus
[01:14.73]In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous
[01:17.73]I can tell undoubted raphaels from gerard dows and zoffanies
[01:20.76]I know the croaking chorus from the frogs of Aristophanes
[01:23.73]Then I can hum a fugue of which
[01:25.17]I've heard the music's din afore
[01:27.42]Din afore
[01:30.03]Din afore
[01:30.42]Yes
[01:30.60]And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense
[01:32.58]Pinafore
[01:33.15]And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense
[01:34.89]Pinafore
[01:35.85]And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense
[01:37.77]Pinafore
[01:38.25]And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense
[01:40.26]Pinafore
[01:42.96]Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform
[01:45.69]And tell you every detail of caractacus's uniform
[01:48.27]In short in matters vegetable animal and mineral
[01:50.61]I am the very model of a modern Major General
[01:53.31]In short in matters vegetable animal and mineral
[01:55.77]I am the very model of a modern Major General
[02:01.47]In fact when I know what is meant by mamelon and ravelin
[02:04.83]When I can tell at sight a mauser rifle from a javelin
[02:08.16]When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at
[02:11.55]And when I know precisely what is meant by commissariat
[02:15.57]When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery
[02:19.02]When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
[02:22.08]In short when I was smattering of elemental strategy
[02:25.68]Strategy rategy pategy oh I got it
[02:32.34]You'll say a better Major General has never sat a gee
[02:35.22]You'll say a better Major General has never sat a gee
[02:37.68]You'll say a better Major General has never sat a gee
[02:40.11]You'll say a better Major General has never sat a gee
[02:44.79]For my military knowledge though
[02:46.17]I'm plucky and adventury
[02:47.31]Has only been brought down to
[02:48.42]The beginning of the century
[02:49.77]But still in matters vegetable animal and mineral
[02:52.23]I am the very model of a modern Major General
[02:54.75]The beginning of the century
[02:55.77]But still in matters vegetable animal and mineral
[02:57.21]I am the very model of a modern Major General