Chords for Modern Major General

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_ _ _ _ _ I am the very model of a modern meat-e [B]-gineral.
I've information, vegetable, animal and [E] mineral.
I know the kings of England and their court-of-fights [B] historical.
From marathon to war to loon we
know the cataclysm.
I'm very well equated too with matters mathematical.
[D] I understand
equations both the [G] simple and [Cm] grammatical.
About binomial theorem I'm even [Em] with a lot
of news.
Oh, not a news.
[Cm] Ah, there are many fearful facts about the square [B] of the hypotenuse.
_ _ [E] I'm very good at integral and differential [Gb] calculus.
I know the scientific needs of [B] kings
and immaculates.
In short, it matters mathematical, animal and [Eb] mineral.
I am the very model of
a [E] modern meat-e-general. _
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_ I know our mythic history, King Arthur, that's a [B] paradox.
I
answer hard acrostics.
I have a pretty date for [E] paradox.
I've protein, nearly dry, I've
total triangle, fairly opopulent.
In [B] college I can't explore peculiarities, parabolas.
I can tell undoubted papayas and [Em] terra [D]-thousandsophonies.
I know the protein borers from the fronts of
the [B] paradisophonies.
Then I can hum a fugue of which I [Em] heard the music's dinner for.
[Eb] Ah, this is an easy one.
[Cm] I whistle all the [C] airs from that infernal nonsense, [B] Pinafore.
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_ Then [E] I can write a washing bill in Babylonic uniform.
I [B] tell you every detail of the rectatus'
uniform.
In short, it matters mathematical, animal [E] and mineral.
I am the very model of
a modern meat-e-general.
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In fact, when I know what is meant by Mamelon and Rathelin, [B] I can
tell at sight a Mauser rifle from [Ebm] a [E] Javelin.
[Dbm] When such affairs as sorties and surprises
I'm more wary [B] at.
And when I know precisely what is meant by Commissariat.
When I have
learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery.
[Am] When I know more of tactics than
[G] a novice in an [Eb] honouree.
[B] In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy.
[N] _ Oh, the
strategy strategy. _
Ah, you'll [C] say a better meat-e-general is [B] never satagy.
Satagy?
_ Oh,
please yourself.
Well, you try and write strategy.
It's not [Gb] easy, you know.
_ [E] All my military
knowledge, though I'm plucky and [B] adventuring, has only been brought out at the beginning
of the century.
Still, it matters metatical, animal and [Dbm] mineral.
I am the very model [E] of
a modern meat-e-general. _
_ [Ab] I am [B] the very model of a modern meat-e [E]-general. _
_ [Eb] Hey!
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