General. Yes, I am a Major-General !

All. You are! Hurrah for the Major-General !

General. And it is a glorious thing to be a Major-General I

All. It is! Hurrah for the Major-General !

I am the very pattern of a modern major-gineral :

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 of news —

(Bothered for next rhyme.) Lot o' news — lot o' news —

(Struck with an idea.) With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse;

(Joyfully.) With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse!

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-gineral '

In short in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral

He is the very model of a modern major-gineral !

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 —

(Bothered for next rhyme.) Din afor-e? din afore? din afore? —

(Struck with am idea.) And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense, Pinafore,

(Joyously.) And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense. Pinafore.