STORY/ SCENARIO: Overcome with the thrill of his adventure with Pikachu, Ash finds himself reliving his experiences to date and forging a connection to the heroes of yesteryear. Watching from afar, the spirits of Ash's male ancestors urge him on.
VARIATIONS: I have added a section - approximately 7 bars long - to the end of each verse, during which a male chorus, representing the spirits of Ash's ancestors, sings a brief harmony while Ash improvises over the top:
- The rhythm for this harmony in verses 1,2 and 4 is crochet (So), a three-note sequence of dotted quaver, semiquaver, crotchet (long ago!) - crotchet rest, crotchet, the three-note sequence again, a ten-note sequence of 2 crotchets followed by 8 quavers (All the...felt/ So), the three-note sequence again, crotchet rest, crotchet, the three note sequence, the ten-note sequence, and the three-note sequence again to finish.
- The rhythm for the harmony in verse 3 is ten quavers (Let the...into), the three-note sequence (every pore), quaver rest, eleven quavers (vibrations...to/ The), the three-note sequence, crotchet rest, crotchet, the three-note sequence, quaver rest, eleven quavers (They too...to/ The), and the three-note sequence again to finish.
ASH:
Daring and strong,
We fight the foe!
Learning we're wrong,
We change and grow.
Sharing a song,
As we journey along -
Though the wind may blow -
You'd never know
All the anxious fears I felt
So long ago.
CHORUS/ (ASH):
So long ago! So long ago! (Improvises on 'So long ago!')
All the anxious, anxious fears I felt
So long ago! So long ago!
All the anxious, anxious fears I felt
So long ago!
ASH:
Sunk like a stone,
I had no aim
But to bemoan
This wretched game!
Chilled to the bone,
I was lost and alone -
Feebly burnt my flame -
Then summer came,
And I dreamt again my dream
Of future fame.
CHORUS/ (ASH):
Proud is the name you boldly claim; (Improvises on 'Of future fame!)
As you dreamt and dreamt again your dream
Of future fame, we did the same -
Woke and slept and dreamt again our dream
Of future fame!
ASH:
Timid I rose
And left my door,
Just, I suppose,
Like men before:
Millions - who knows? -
And before all of those
Went a million more
In days of yore,
And they journey with me to
The furthest shore.
CHORUS/ (ASH):
Let the liquid music enter into (Improvises on 'The furthest shore!)
Every pore, vibrations thrum and fill and thrill you to
The very core! The very core!
They too will journey, journey with you to
The furthest shore.
ASH:
Rising I greet
The morning new;
No one can beat
Both me and you!
Born to compete,
Not afraid of defeat -
Or of winning, too.
Let's see it through;
Now the time has come to show
What we can do.
CHORUS/ (ASH):
Be faithful to your promise true: (Improvises on 'What we can do!)
Brave and brightly may you voyage, and
Enjoy the view! We live in you!
Now the time has, time has come to show
What you can do! (What we can do!)