Hi Kevin,

On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 11:31 PM Kevin Pye <[email protected]> wrote:

> What silly mistake am I making here?
>

Not all that silly. Though the docs do talk about putting lyrics into the
same repeat structure as the music, there's one detail in
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/lyrics-and-repeats
that you may have missed:

"... when one of the \alternative blocks starts with a rest, a repeat
construct cannot be used around the words"

Change the lyrics block to just

words = \lyricmode {
    a b c d e
}

and it should behave itself a bit better for you.
-- 
Michael

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