it's really quite amazing how frequent is this parody, In fact it's common usages they boarder on a malady, And yet there are more patter songs in Gilbert's operatic list, the nightmare song, Easthetic song, all of which I've sung when I'm pist. There's also that one changing words to matters that are topical, Number five in the Mikado in order chronological, And yet it's general stanley who gets the popularity, Though I suppose it's just another net enabled falacy. To a gilbert inthusiast it's like a red rag to a bull, So I hope you will forgive me though my rhymes are rather terrible, But finding it's referd to on the Island quite improbable, I had to have my own go at the Modern Major General!