User:Elf/TempSong

The Web Encyclopedia Song

(From The Major General's Song by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Here's music file to sing along with (MIDI format))

This is the very model of a web encyclopedia,
It's got a zillion topics by the grace of Wikimedia,
It lists the kings of England, and it notes the fights historical,
From Marathon to Karbala, in order categorical;
It's thoroughly inclusive, too, of topics mathematical,
It talks about 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.

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
hypote- potenuse.

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous;
In short, its zillion pages by the grace of Wikimedia
Make it the very model of a web encyclopedia.

In short, its zillion pages by the grace of Wikimedia
Make it the very model of a web encyclopedia.

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.

And whistle all the airs, etc.

Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:
In short, its zillion pages by the grace of Wikimedia
Make it the very model of a web encyclopedia.

In short, its zillion pages by the grace of Wikimedia
Make it the very model of a web encyclopedia.

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..

For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, its zillion pages by the grace of Wikimedia
Make it the very model of a web encyclopedia.

But still, its zillion pages by the grace of Wikimedia
Make it the very model of a web encyclopedia!