Have you looked at the "The Star Spangled Banner" example at
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/people/hanwen/lilypond/short-examples.html ?
/Mats
> Well, maybe I do it the wrong way:
>
> I try to typeset a song, where the first couple of measures in each verse
> has the music repeated, but with a different text. This is usually set
> with a repeat bar in the staff and two lines of text between the upper and
> the lower staff. Unfortunately I can't get it right. The outcome is like
> this:
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> ................. upper :| staff....................
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> First line of 1st verse
> First line of 2nd verse
> First line of 3rd verse
> non-repeated part of 1st verse
> non-repeated part of 2nd verse
> non-repeated part of 3rd verse
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> ..................lower :| staff .........................
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 2nd line of 1st verse
> 2nd line of 2nd verse
> 2nd line of 3rd verse
>
>
> This is rather ugly. Well, the input file is appended to this mail.