Gilbert and Sullivan - Pirates of Penzance - I am the very model of a modern Major-General [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

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 –
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse

All:
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypoten- potenuse

General:
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

All:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
He is the very model of a modern Major-General

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
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore

All:
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pina- Pinafore

General:
Kursiver TextThen 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

All:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
He is the very model of a modern Major-General

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

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

General:
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

All:
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral
He is the very model of a modern Major-General