"Rock the Dragon" is the unofficial name for the untitled theme song heard during the opening and closing sequences of the FUNimation dub of Dragon Ball Z, particularly in earlier episodes. It is written and performed by Shuki Levy and Kussa Mahehi. The opening sequence features scenes from Dragon Ball Z: Dead Zone, Dragon Ball Z: The World's Strongest, Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might, and the Vegeta Saga. The song was originally featured in the Ocean Group dub and produced while Ocean Studios dubbed the series under a joint venture between Saban and FUNimation. When Saban ended this deal, FUNimation could no longer afford Ocean Studios' work and thus began dubbing the series using an in-house team, and soon replaced Levy and Mahehi's soundtrack with music by Bruce Faulconer.

On peer-to-peer music sharing sites, the song is often falsely credited to Linkin Park. Additionally, even after FUNimation started doing their own dub version and music, the instrumental end-credit version of the song still played over the end credits when the Frieza Saga was shown on Cartoon Network.

Lyrics

[Intro]

Dragon Ball Z!

[Verse 1]

Dragon, Dragon! Rock the Dragon! Dragon Ball Z!
Dragon, Dragon! Rock the Dragon! Come get me!

[Hook - instrumental]

Dragon Ball Z!

[Verse 2]

Dragon, Dragon! Rock the Dragon! Dragon Ball Z!
Dragon, Dragon! Rock the Dragon! Come get me!

[Hook - instrumental]

[Outro]

Dragon Ball Z!

Dragon Ball Z!
Dragon Ball Z!

Trivia

A version of the song was in the US release of Dragon Ball Z: Budokai, and was 50 seconds longer than the TV version.

Rock the Dragon

From Dragon Ball Encyclopedia

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Trivia

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