Ninety years before people first walked on the moon, in 1879 Gilbert and Sullivan gave us their comic opera The Pirates of Penzance and--in it--this funny little song "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General".

Today I listened to a 96-year-old recording via the Wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major-General%27s_Song

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