lyrics and \skip

[Dominic Neumann]

Hi,

I have a song with two parts. The first has also one lyrics line (the
refrain). the second part has three lyrics lines (the verses). I have
the lyrics in the vars refrain, verseOne, verseTwo and verseThree.

If I try to add them via \addlyrics, all lyrics begin at the first
bar. Then I found the command \skip, but it only skips one note and
things like mentioned in the manual "\skip 1*8" don´t work (also only
skip one note).

Is there a better way to do this than inserting hundreds of skips into
the lyrics?

Dominic