Pokemon Lyric Collection for Red, Blue and Yellow

by poketroubadour

Attention all Pokemon Music Lovers! Ever wanted to actually, you know, sing those incredible tunes that play while you're out strutting your trainery stuff? Behold my extensive collection of lyrics set to the music of Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow versions! A separate story will soon be published containing my other Pokemon lyrics. Enjoy!

9. 8 - Trainer Battle

STORY/ SCENARIO: Having ambushed our heroes once again - doubtless with the aid of one of their foolproof disguises - Team Rocket prepare to do battle.

VARIATIONS: This piece has undergone substantial alterations to make it a viable melody for singing:
- The eight introductory bars are included as part of the song (Hah, cornered!...nightmare).
- Bars 15-23 of the main melody have been largely rewritten. The rhythm in bars 15-16 has been changed to two dotted crotchets followed by a crotchet tied to a dotted minim, notes EAB (-out a soul). For bars 17-23 (Groan...shown/Like) the tune is largely - aside from being one octave lower - as per RBY, but with an altered rhythm. You will have to follow as best you can.
- In bars 41-44 of the main melody, Jessie sings the semibreve notes as written, while James, coming in midway through the second beat of the bar, responds by saying his lines in a rhythm of five quavers (Sky...thought of it).
- In bars 45-48 the melody is as per the HeartGold and SoulSilver versions of the piece - two dotted crotchets and one crotchet in each bar (We'll never...livin'/ Or) - i.e. the same note is played three times in each bar, except for bar 48 where the notes are changed from FFF to FFD.
- The verse ends on the first note of bar 49: a crotchet F (die!). The melody rests in bar 50, then the second verse commences from the start of the introduction. Bars 51-58 are deleted.

JESSIE & JAMES:
Hah, cornered! No escape for
You: rising like a vapour,
We've got you! Hold it right there!
We are your darkest nightmare!

Straight from the pit of hell,
We're bad, but do it well!
Hearts black as coal,
Born all without a soul!

Groan -
Helpless and alone -
No mercy will be shown!
Like stone

We will crush and break you,
Take and make you
Our own!

Frightening,
We strike like lightning,
The darkness brightening,
The dusky blackness whitening,
In the night

JESSIE/ (JAMES):
Sky! (You're what we covet)
Sly! (We really love it!)
Lie? (We're not above it!)
Why? (I've not thought of it!)

JESSIE & JAMES:
We'll never give in:
We'll steal for a livin'
Or die!

Oh, well; that's quite enough
Of that! It's time we got tough -
But wait! Actually before then,
We'll just say one thing more, then:

I think you know our name -
We're very much the same -
Team Rocket we,
High kings (Jessie sings 'queens') of burglary!

Ooh,
We remember you,
We're here for Pikachu,
It's true!

So prepare for trouble!
Make it double -
Please do!

Teeming
With evil scheming,
Our faces beaming,
Enjoying it, or seeming to:
You'll never

JESSIE/ (JAMES):
Know, (We never let it)
Show, (But we regret it)
So! (We're foul and fetid)
Oh! (I still don't get it!)

JESSIE & JAMES:
What's all this prattle?
Get ready for battle!
Let's go!