Chords for I am the very model of a modern major general!

Yes, yes, he is a major general!
_ Yes, yes, I am a major general!
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[Ab] _ [Eb] _ I am the very model of a modern major [Bb] general.
I've information, vegetable, animal, [Eb] and mineral.
I know the kings of England and I quote the facts [Bb] historical.
From Marathon to Waterloo in order categorical.
_ _ _ I am very well acquainted with [Eb] Alice Hallowell.
I understand equations both simple and [Bb] quadratical.
About binomial theorems I'm [Ebm] teeming with a lot of news.
Lot of news.
Papa? _ _
_ _ [B] With many cheerful facts about [Bb] the square of the hypotenuse. _
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_ _ _ _ [Eb] I am very good at integral and differential [Bb] calculus.
I know the scientific names of beings and a [Gm] malculus.
In shortly, man is a vegetable, animal, [Eb] and mineral.
I am the very model of a modern major general.
In shortly, man is a vegetable, animal, and mineral.
He is the very model of a modern major general.
I know our mythic history, king Arthur's answer [Bb] paradox.
I answer how to cross 650 days [Eb] per paradox.
I quote enologiacs or the primacy of the Enlightenment.
of [Bb] Heliogapolis, in Connix I can floor peculiarities, Parabolous!
Hey!
I can tell undaunted Raphaels of Gerard [Eb] Delson's oponies, I know the proggy chorus from the
frogs of [Bb] Aristophanes, and I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the [Ebm] music's dina-for. _
Dinafor.
Ha ha [D] ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha _ _ [B] _ _ ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
And whistle all the air from that infernal- [Bb] long, Pinafor!
And whistle all the air from that infernal- long, Pinafor!
And whistle all the air from that infernal- long, Pinafor!
And whistle all the air from that infernal- long, Pina- Pinafor! _
[Eb] Then I can write a Washington villain Babylonic [Bb] Uniform, and give you every detail of Caractex's
uniform, and shorten Nannles' [Eb] vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a moderated general.
[Bb] And shorten Nannles' vegetable, animal, and mineral, he is the very [Eb] model of a moderated 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
[F] when I know precisely what is [Bb] meant by commissariat, _ _ _
[D] when I have learned what progress has been
made in [Ebm] modern gunnery, [F]
when I know more of tactics than [Ebm] a novice in a nunnery, [D] in short,
when I'm a spattering of [Ebm] elemental strategy. _
[Bb] _ Strategy.
_ Strategy.
Strategy. _
_ _ Strategy.
_ [B] Strategy.
Strategy.
[Bb] Strategy.
_ _ _ Strategy. _
Strategy.
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Strategy.
My military knowledge, though I'm plucky and [Bb] adventure-y, has only been brought down to
the beginning of the century, but still in [Gm] Nannles' vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very [Eb] model of a moderated general.
But still in Nannles' vegetable, animal, and mineral, he is the very model of a moderated general. _
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I've knowledge in all areas, artistic or didactical, from things utilitarian to totally
impractical I know the dates of great events both wonderful and sinister [F] I
even know how short time John Turner [Bb] was Prime Minister [B] _ I _ _ [D] memorized all
principles logistic and [F] mechanical in many ways I am encyclopedia [D] Britannical
I've knowledge as gratuitous as [Ebm] how an ancient lute is [N] played.
_ Lute is played?
_ _ so [B] I'm always in demand whenever [Bb] trivial pursuit is played.
He's always in demand whenever trivial _ _ _ _ _ _ pursuit is played.
One _ [Eb] thing I don't understand is anything [Bb] Shakespearean except it's played in theaters that I get very [Eb] weary in.
But in those matters vegetable animal and mineral I am the very model of a modern major general.
But in those matters vegetable [Bb] animal and mineral he is the very model [Eb] of a modern major general.
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